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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Brian Farmer

Paranoid schizophrenic who killed elderly men continues compensation battle

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A paranoid schizophrenic who killed three elderly men but was acquitted of murder by reason of insanity is embroiled in a compensation fight.

Former scaffolder Alexander Lewis-Ranwell, from Croyde, Devon, battered Anthony Payne, 80, with a hammer, and bludgeoned 84-year-old twins Dick and Roger Carter with a shovel, in Exeter, Devon, in February 2019.

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