Overstayer who cut lover’s throat was mentally ill

A killer who cut his teenage girlfriend’s throat more than two years after he had been served with a deportation notice was suffering from ‘major’ mental illness, a court heard. Tunisian Maher Maaroufe, 24, repeatedly stabbed City University psychology undergraduate Sabita Thanwani, 19, in Clerkenwell, central London, on 19 March 2022. Police were called to Arbour House in Sebastian Street after a neighbour heard the victim telling Maaroufe to stop, before telling him: ‘I can’t breathe. You’re going to kill…