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 “demons” 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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