Man handed hospital order after killing widower ‘to free himself from curse’
by William Warnes
Mar 26, 2024
2 minutes
A man who travelled almost 500 miles to stab an elderly widower he had never met has been handed an indefinite hospital order.
James O’Connor killed 89-year-old Frederick Burge as part of a “deluded” belief that he needed to be freed from a curse, a court was told.
The 45-year-old claimed voices told him heard “auditory hallucinations” led him to travel from in to in the south west of , where he stabbed the pensioner with a kitchen knife nine times on February 26 last year.
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