Former prisoner locked up indefinitely for 'senseless' killing of Clare man in London

Mr O’Halloran was originally from Co Clare in Ireland and was well known in the Greenford community where he busked to raise charity funds for Ukraine

Thomas O’Halloran was killed in August 2022. Picture: Kieran McKenna/PA

A Hunger Games-obsessed ex-prisoner has been locked up indefinitely for the “senseless” killing of an elderly mobility scooter rider five days after his release.

Lee Byer was psychotic when he stabbed 87-year-old Thomas O’Halloran in the neck and chest in Greenford, west London, in August 2022.