Driver of 'rampage' bus was diagnosed schizophrenic

The former policeman whose bus rampage caused the death of a 62-year-old mother was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed he was being pursued by several police forces and intelligence services.

Peter Clarke, a former City of London Police constable, had been diagnosed years before the bus incident both here and in the USA as psychotic and was suffering from a mental disorder at the time, Dr Henry Kennedy, Clinical Director of the Central Mental Hospital, said on day-three of his trial.