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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Susie Beever & Dave Higgens

Failed asylum seeker who killed woman, 87, he befriended detained at secure hospital

A failed asylum seeker who killed an elderly woman in what a judge branded an "appalling act of brutality" has been detained in a psychiatric hospital.

Shahin Darvish-Narenjbon was befriended by 87-year-old Brenda Blainey in a restaurant, who then let him move into her home in the picturesque village of Thornton-le-Dale, North Yorkshire.

A court heard Mrs Blainey had treated the 34-year-old "like a grandson" after meeting at a Carluccio's branch in Leeds, where he was living as a student.

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