A man said "I don't like bullies" as he was jailed for life for attempted murder.
David O'Brien attacked a fellow patient at Ashworth Hospital with a metal bar as they worked out in the facility's gym, striking him twice over the head with the makeshift weapon. Afterwards, he told doctors that he "had been hearing voices in his head telling him to kill his victim" - whom he wanted to "stab in the eyes".
The 45-year-old today admitted attempted murder in relation to the incident at the high security psychiatric hospital in Maghull on November 29, 2021, but claimed that the target of his savage attack was a "bully". O'Brien was handed a lifetime imprisonment for a third time at Liverpool Crown Court, with each being imposed for the same offence.
