Deadly stabbing in UK: Indian-origin man given indefinite hospital order
The man was sentenced at the same court to an indefinite hospital order under Section 37 of the UK's Mental Health Act 1983.;
London: An Indian-origin man, who was found guilty of manslaughter for fatally stabbing a 69-year-old builder after a row in west London, has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order by a UK court.
Gurjeet Singh Lall, 36, attacked Allan Isichei after the pair became involved in an argument over Lall's spitting on a street in Southall. An Inner London Crown Court jury had found him guilty of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility in October.
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On Monday, he was sentenced at the same court to an indefinite hospital order under Section 37 of the UK's Mental Health Act 1983.
Lall, who will now remain detained in a mental health facility, did not appear for the sentencing hearing.
"There was no good reason for Lall to have had a knife in his possession that day, and no good reason for him to use it. I am glad that he was convicted after the jury rejected his claim that he was acting in self-defense and that he has now been detained indefinitely," said Detective Inspector Jamie Stevenson of the Metropolitan Police's Specialist Crime unit.
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