Police are investigating reports that she spent several minutes inside the Social Security Office in the popular seaside resort of Los Cristianos while the Bulgarian ranted at the door. He had been refused entrance because of his "aggressive manner" towards her. She waited until he had moved on before emerging from the building and entering a discount store next door.
Yes of course the same thing happens in US. There are many examples of that. It's because violent mentally ill people are let out of the mental hospitals after doctors have declared them not a threat. What of course is rather obvious that once they are in the hospital medicated they might not be a threat. Once they get out and don't take their meds its another story all together.
I am not familiar with the laws in Britain or Canada (where the mentally ill man beheaded another man on a greyhound bus) but these types of murders happen in the US as well.
In fact they happen fairly regularly. Not beheading but attacks on other persons by mentally ill people.
We need to find a way to not only protect the mentally ill from themselves but others from them. The laws as they stand today were more of a knee jerk reaction to the older laws that allowed mentally ill people to be warehoused in institutions. Those laws needed to be changed but now we've seen that the new laws which we abide by now aren't doing enough to protect the severely mentally ill patient and the public at large from their illnesses.
Paranoid Schizophrenia can have horrifying consequences not only for the person who is afflicted with this disease but can be devastating for those that come into contact with an unmedicated PS. However, the laws are such we can't mandate meds for someone. Because this is a brain disease and our brains as humans are our reality it is impossible for the PS to seperate themselves from their illness and see that they truly are ill and need help and meds.
My heart bleeds for the horrific death of this woman, her last experiences on earth and the hurt and grief that her family and friends must bear---it's incomprehensible.
My heart also bleeds for this man with such a profound mental illness that once he is medicated he will more than likely suffer from the awareness of his actions for the rest of his life. His family as well will suffer because if the laws are anything like here in the US they had no choice about his medical care, their hands were tied.
I had a close family member that suffered from PS. He is dead and gone now but he was institutionalized for many years of his life, many times.
Prayers for all those that have come into contact with this mental illness. Especially this woman and her family and friends. I'm so very sorry for your loss.
"British granny"? That's a bit indelicate. Still, plenty more plus a new picture at Mail link above.---
The shopkeeper who saw Deyanov minutes before the bloodbath yesterday told how the 28-year-old Bulgarian was agitatedly walking through the Avenidas supermarket in a T-shirt, shorts and flip-flops on Friday morning.
The man, who gave his name as Carlos, said: ‘He had a note in his hands which he showed me. It said, “I am God”. I asked him what he was looking for and he held his hands far apart and said, “I’m looking for a knife this big”. I said we didn’t have knives and asked what he wanted it for. He said, “I want to kill someone”, and gestured across his neck.’
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And did this guy call the police to report it?Daily Mail again, continuing its wall-to-wall coverage:
I want a knife this big ... I’m going to kill someone:
Maniac pictured minutes before he beheaded British granny
"British granny"? That's a bit indelicate. Still, plenty more plus a new picture at Mail link above.
"I want the knife this big ... I'm going to kill someone" isn't going to to do it?
Deyanov built his shrine out of breeze blocks and his shoe collection included blue ballet pumps and tan wedges.
He also had copies of A Suggestion of Death by Marianne Wesson and Nick Hornby's How To Be Good.
This murderer actually has a Facebook. I checked now that they have released his last name.
It appears at some point he had to have been semi "normal" as he has friends on there asking after him. He also links to Messiah.com. and lists Texas as where he lives.
https://en-gb.facebook.com/deyan.deyanov?sk=wall
I got a "warning this is a fake site" thingy when I clicked this link...so...for what it's worth, own risk, grain of salt, etc.
I must admit, I have a certain fondness for tabloid news:
from Filly's Sun link above (oh, and I also wonder what's the deal with the hair curlers on the Jesus altar)
In all seriousness "gun". Here in Philly anyway. "G-U-N". "Someone's got a gun." "Someone is running around with a gun". "Some dude just stopped in my store and he had a gun".
Again this is just here and it's all I know, but if you called 911 and said a man just asked for a big knife so he can kill somebody I am not lying they'd be out in probably an hour. Maybe an hour. It's not the fault of the Officers themselves but lack of manpower. That island seems to be fairly toney so perhaps it's different there.
Do the police there carry loaded firearms?
The rest, plus a new pic of the guy, at Daily Mail link above.A maniac who beheaded a British grandmother in Tenerife was wanted by police at the time of the horrific attack, it emerged today.
An arrest warrant for Deyan Deyanov, 28, had been issued three days before he brutally murdered Jennifer Mills-Westley, 60, in a shop in the resort of Los Cristianos.
A magistrate said he should be detained for examination by a psychiatrist after a previous attack on a shop security guard.
But police officers failed to bring in the killer, who was well-known on the streets of the resort, before he pursued and brutally murdered Mrs Mills-Westley.
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and now we learn....
Arrest warrant for knife manic was issued three days before he beheaded British grandmother in Tenerife
The rest, plus a new pic of the guy, at Daily Mail link above.