VIDEO: Beheader found not guilty but insane

A deranged cage fighter, who was caught on CCTV beheading an elderly woman and two cats during a 45-minute rampage through back gardens will be locked up indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital.

VIDEO: Beheader found not guilty but insane

Nicholas Salvador, 25, believed he was killing ā€œdemonsā€ when he ran amok, tearing down fences and kicking down neighbours’ doors in Edmonton, north London, on the afternoon of September 4 last year, the Old Bailey heard.

Video footage taken from a police helicopter overhead showed 82-year-old cafe owner Palmira Silva, wearing a pinny, approaching the bare-chested Salvador over her garden wall.

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