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Suruti

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RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

The only reason he was given a manslaughter charge rather than murder was his paranoid psychosis, meeting the threshold for diminished responsibility.

RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

So strap in, because what you're about to hear now is pretty horrible.

RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

So Jasmine, who was this four-year-old, remember, and Sam, her mum, were discovered stabbed to death by Sam's partner, Conrad Ellum.

RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

One evening, Sam had answered the door to Napa and he had immediately attacked her.

RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

And what he did to her was so horrific that one of the police officers attending the scene said that it was the most gruesome sight he'd ever seen.

RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

But when it came to the case of Rachel Nickell, the Met didn't just have Napa's DNA all over their evidence samples.

RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

Flecks of paint taken from little Alex's clothes were also found to be a match for a red toolbox belonging to Napa.

RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

So when Napa was questioned in Broadmoor, he denied the crime.

RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

But the similarities and the brutality and all of the evidence were pretty hard to ignore.

RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

And so he ended up doing the same thing that he'd done before.

RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

Napa pleaded guilty to the crime, but on a basis of diminished responsibility due to his paranoid schizophrenia.

RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

Robert Napa was convicted of the manslaughter of Rachel Nickell in 2008.

RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

And it's incredibly unlikely that he will ever get out of Broadmoor.

RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

And allowed to roam free and murder again.

RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

Yeah, because poor Britain told them to look for somebody who was into the occult.

RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

So after this attack, Napa's house was searched by police.

RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

The house that he lived in with his mother, by the way.

RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

And officers found an A to Z. This A to Z was covered in annotations of the local area.

RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

A to Z, by the way, for anybody... I don't know, do they do them outside of Britain?

RedHanded
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

I don't know.