A trained surgeon who beheaded his friend in a betting shop has been cleared of murder on the grounds of insanity.
Paranoid schizophrenic Hassan Mustafa, 35, used a knife to decapitate Khalid Yousef at a Paddy Power in Handsworth, Birmingham.
Mustafa then mutilated his 28-year-old former housemate’s face and one of his hands, Birmingham Crown court was told.
Mustafa, who sought political asylum in the UK in 2013, was originally charged with murder.
But jurors were invited to return a ‘special verdict’ of not guilty of murder by reason of insanity, if they believed Mustafa did not know what he was doing was wrong.
The court was told Mustafa, of Stratford Road, Sparkbrook, ‘believed he was killing a supernatural being rather than a human being’ as part of a competition.
CCTV played in court showed Mustafa attack Mr Yousef with a large bread knife inside the building.
When armed police arrived they saw his body slumped up against the customer door with Mustafa standing over him.
Outside the shop he admitted to police he had killed Mr Yousef claiming ‘he did it for the lord’.
Prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC said Mr Yousef’s wounds suggested the mutilation had been ‘carried out with some skill’.
Mustafa, the son of a Sudanese diplomat, told psychiatrist Dr Dinesh Maganty that he was part of The Extraordinary League Of Gentlemen which Mr Yousef was also a member of.
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