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Christina Edkins: the remarkable compassion shown to her mentally ill killer
THE Sun says Christina Edkins, 16, was “killed by the system”.
Phillip Simelane, 23, had been freed from prison. Despite his severe mental health issues, no-one thought it best to watch him.
Yesterday he was back in prison, starting a life sentence for killing Miss Edkins on a Birmingham bus. They had never met before.
Simelane admitted to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility at Birmingham Crown Court.
The Sun produces gory details of his crime:
As Christina sat down after boarding the bus, paranoid schizophrenic Simelane — a man described as a “ticking timebomb” — slouched seemingly asleep in the back seat. But Simelane swiftly stood up and moved to a seat directly behind her. Seconds later he stood again, clutching a kitchen knife he had pulled from a plastic bag. Chilling CCTV footage from the bus shows Simelane plunging the knife into Christina’s chest without uttering a single word. Then he calmly goes downstairs and gets off at the next stop.
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