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Emily Pennink & Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas

Psychopathic hammer attacker jailed for life after fulfilling graveyard murder 'fantasy'

A psychopathic hammer attacker has been jailed for life after he fulfilled a "depraved fantasy" to kill a random stranger in a Gothic graveyard.

Erik Feld, 37, had a long-standing obsession with extreme violence before he killed Ranjith Kankanamalage in a premediated attack.

Prior to the incident, the Old Bailey heard Feld fed his fixation by buying a kitten in order to kill it and had watched “snuff films” online of men and women being bludgeoned with hammers.

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