EX-HOSPITAL WORKER STABBED BETHNAL GREEN FATHER TO DEATH AND ATTACKED TWO CHILDREN TO SAVE THEM FROM TORTURE
An ex-London hospital administrator stabbed his father to death and tried to kill two young children to spare them from "torture and crucifixion", a court heard.Mentally ill Suluk Ahmed, 32, from Bethnal Green, quit his job just weeks before the attack on 79-year-old Jamil Ali and a boy and girl, aged two and 12.
Before the attacks, twice married Ahmed was regarded as an "ordinary outgoing man" who got on well with his father, she said.
He had worked as an administrator at St Mary's Hospital for five years but about a year before the stabbings, a new manager was appointed who he felt bullied him.
He took sick leave and was prescribed anti-depressants by his doctor before returning to work in July last year.
But by then, he felt he was being "persecuted" and became "paranoid and anxious", believing his computer had been hacked and the manager wanted to blow him up, jurors were told.
A few weeks before the stabbings, he resigned from his "beloved" job and his second marriage also ended as Ahmed thought his wife was in "cahoots" with the manager.
On August 23 last year, paramedics went to a house in Tower Hamlets where they disarmed Ahmed, who had tried to stab himself as well as his three victims.
The toddler had a chest wound, just centimetres from his heart, and the older girl had suffered two stab injuries to her back.
Mr Ali had been knifed in the heart and was discovered lying in his bed, the court heard.
Ahmed believed he was "doing the right thing, saving them from a fate worse than death".
He is said to have been so "out of touch with reality," that he believed his vulnerable victims would be tortured and crucified, she said.
He has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and denies the manslaughter of Mr Ali and the attempted murder of the children, by reason of insanity.
The trial was adjourned until Thursday.
