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December 22, 2014
A former bank worker who killed a prostitute after hearing voices telling him that women are the devil was sent to Broadmoor indefinitely today.
Police mounted a major manhunt for Robert Fraser after two attacks on escort women in central London earlier this year.
The paranoid-schizophrenic was finally arrested after being spotted by a member of the public in a Leicester Square shop.
He was found to have been treated for his psychiatric condition since 2009 and had told doctors he believed that God represented men and the devil represented women.
However he had been thrown out of a mental hospital against his will in November 2013 because he was thought to have been a malingerer, the Old Bailey heard.
Just weeks later in January he attacked an escort girl in her home in Marylebone tying her up and leaving her terrified she was going to die.
She was a 27-year-old Belgian national and Fraser stuffed her underwear in her mouth and twisted her head “as if he was trying to break her neck.”
She managed to beat him off but was so terrified she could not contact the police until the following day.
Ten weeks later he battered Maria Duque-Tunjano, a 48-year-old Columbian, in her Earl’s Court flat so brutally that she died of a heart attack.
Fraser, 40 had come to Britain from Jamaica and had lived “a stable and productive life” working in two banks.