The 25-year-old is said to have expressed remorse for the first time after butchering Palmira Silva in the garden of her home in Edmonton, north London
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Sorry: Nicholas Salvador is said to be 'full of remorse |
Crazed killer Nicholas Salvador is said to have apologised for the first time for beheading 82-year-old gran Palmira Silva in the garden of her home in Edmonton, north London.
The 25-year-old was detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act following a trial at the Old Bailey last month in which he was found not guilty of murder on grounds of insanity .
The aspiring cage fighter rampaged along Nightingale Road in September last year and had to be Tasered by police six times after hacking the Italian cafe owner to death.
Neighbour Candice Badham, 41 - who said Salvador was 'like a son' to her having stayed with her family as a teenager when his own mother moved away - told The Sun he had expressed remorse for the first time when she recently visited him at Broadmoor hospital.
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Sorrow: Candice Badham said Salvador has spoken of his remorse inside hospital |
She said he told her: "I'm so, so sorry. I feel so sorry for the family of that lady,
"I am full of remorse. Some days as soon as I wake it's like a horror movie. It haunts me. I could not stop myself and had no control."
Salvador is currently receiving treatment for paranoid schizophrenia.
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Attack: Nicholas Salvador rampaged along a street in Edmonton, north London, in September last year |
Salvador was mentally ill at the time of the killing and believed in demons and 'shapeshifters'
At around 1pm on 4 September last year he armed himself with a wooden pole and a large knife at his home in Nightingale Road, Edmonton, north London.
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victim: Palmira Silva was beheaded in her back garden |
On the CCTV played to the court an officer could be heard to say: "He's agitated and lethal ... he needs taking out."
Police on the ground could then be seen swooping to save the kids - with officers in a force helicopter telling them, "we need units inside the premises to save life ASAP".
Salvador was found not guilty of murder at The Old Bailey on the grounds of insanity. A jury took 41 minutes to reach its decision.