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A man has admitted stabbing a pensioner to death while he was riding his mobility scooter in West London in August 2022. Thomas O'Halloran, 87, was killed when he was attacked in Greenford.
On Monday, the 45-year-old, of no fixed address denied murder but pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter by diminished responsibility and having an offensive weapon.
Prosecutor Gareth Patterson KC accepted the pleas after mental health reports found Byer was psychotic.
The reports say he was hearing voices, suffering from paranoid delusions and paranoid schizophrenia.
Mr O'Halloran, a busker, was able to alert a member of the public, but he could not be saved.
A post-mortem examination found that he was stabbed in the neck, chest and abdomen.
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