‘Psycho’ killed man in bid for notoriety

Kiaran Stapleton was a man lacking an identity before he walked up to Indian student Anuj Bidve and shot him in the left temple.

In his own eyes Stapleton was a nobody in his tough neighbourhood while living in the crowded family home in Ordsall, Salford in Manchester after splitting up with his girlfriend and the mother of his young daughter.

Although of low intelligence, the factory worker was streetwise enough to know that committing such a heinous random act would create a permanent impression in his community.