Sent to Broadmoor after trying to kill a shopkeeper

ILFORD

A convicted killer who tried to murder a shopkeeper after his medication was reduced was sent to Broadmoor mental hospital indefinitely. Schizophrenic Leon Scott, 41, armed himself with two knives before heading to his local store, Ley Street Food and Wines in Ilford, east London last November. Scott had been a regular at the store for four years when he tried to kill shopkeeper Dhines Thangavelu. David Burgess, a recruitment consultant who had known Mr Thangavelu from their school days,…

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