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May 1, 2014
A religious fanatic who was unknowingly suffering from paranoid schizophrenia stabbed his neighbour to death in an ‘unexplained and frenzied attack’.
Leonard Flower, 67, known as Len, was stabbed 17 times – including through the heart – by Sameer Babar, 35, as he was doing odd jobs in his garage in Luton, Bedfordshire.
His wife, Linda, to whom he had been married for 47 years, was just metres away inside the couple’s home when the brutal attack took place.
But Mrs Flower only found out about her husband’s death when he was found lying in a pool of blood by a couple who were delivering leaflets around the area.
During the hearing yesterday at Luton Crown Court, Babar denied murder, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
The court was told Babar, who lived opposite Mr Flower, a retired computer analyst, had fled the scene after carrying out the attack on October 22 last year by stealing the couple’s car.
He then drove north up the M1 motorway but was arrested five hours later in Kenilworth, Warwickshire.
Psychiatrists now believe Babar – who has written two books containing extreme religious rhetoric – was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia in the years leading up to the attack.
He has now been detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act.
Speaking after the hearing, Mrs Flower said she was ‘heartbroken and devastated’ about her husband’s death.
She said: ‘We have lost a good husband, father, grandfather and a kind man who was liked and respected by everyone who met him.’
At the hearing, Judge Michael Kay QC said Babar’s behaviour had been ‘bizarre’ in the year or two before the attack, but there had been no warning that he would be violent.
The court was told that Babar had written two books in 2011 and 2012 containing extreme religious rhetoric, which had led to angry reactions from local mosques.
Babar had also been planning to hold a lecture at Luton library and had been referred to a crisis mental health team, to be treated for depression, after contact with police.
The court was told that the defendant had even been visited by police the day before the killing but had refused to let them in. Police had no power of entry and were forced to leave.
The killing took place around lunchtime the next day.
Prosecutor Beverley Cripps said: ‘The defendant was in the grip of mental illness, which has since been diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia.
