A heroic backpacker died after he was stabbed several times in the head trying to save a woman in an Australian hostel. Thomas Leslie Jackson, from Cheshire, tried to intervene as fellow Brit Mia Ayliff-Chung was knifed at the hostel in Home Hill, Queensland.
An inquest into his death on on August 23, 2016, was held today (Tuesday). Warrington Coroner's Court heard how French backpacker Smail Ayad carried out the attack on both Thomas, 30, and Miss Ayliff-Chung, 20.
According to Cheshire Live, a coroner's report in Queensland stated that Mr Ayad was at the time 'psychotic and under the influence of cannabis'. As a result criminal proceedings were discontinued.
