Woman beheaded by ‘paranoid schizophrenic’

The daughter of a woman beheaded in a Spanish supermarket wept as a coroner described how she was unable to defend herself against the “abhorrent” attack.

Retired road safety worker Jennifer Mills-Westley, 60, from Norwich, was shopping in a Chinese-owned supermarket in the resort of Los Cristianos on May 13, 2011 when she was attacked.

A Spanish jury later ruled that Deyan Deyanov was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia at the time of the murder, and he was sentenced to 20 years in a secure psychiatric unit in Seville.