Murderer was discharged against advice

♦ A racist paranoid schizophrenic who murdered his Kurdish refugee neighbour had been released just hours earlier from a psychiatric hospital against doctors’ advice.

Jeffrey Barry, 56, stabbed to death his neighbour Kamil Ahmad, 49, and cut off his penis at his flat in Bristol at about 2am on July 7 last year. Bristol Crown Court heard psychiatrists had opposed Barry’s release, but a mental health tribunal ruled that he should be discharged.

A jury unanimously convicted Barry, who is being held at Broadmoor Hospital, of murder at trial.