A man with a decade-long history of mental illness shouted “This is for my Syrian brothers” when he slashed the throat of a passenger at Leytonstone Tube station, a court has heard. A month before the attack, his GP referred him to hospital because he had been experiencing paranoid delusions, but he had first been detained in hospital in 2006. The jury watched footage of Lyle Muhiddin Mire, 30, was “motivated by revenge” for the bombing of Syria when he attacked the passing musician and lashed out at four other commuters in east London last year, the Old Bailey heard.

Source: The Times May 31, 2016 23:11 UTC