Axeman beheaded Irish emigrant’s son
“I’ve known him for 20 years. It’s complicated,” the killer told shocked witnesses to the axe attack in upmarket Hampstead, north London on March 14.
At London’s Old Bailey court this week deranged waiter Joseph Sheehan, aged 37, pleaded guilty to gay pensioner Brian Messitt’s manslaughter.
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