Paranoid hammer killer is locked up

A DRUG addict has been locked up indefinitely for bludgeoning his son to death with a hammer after he became paranoid his partner was having an affair.

Bidhya Sagar Das, a cannabis user, killed 16-month- old Gabriel Sonu Bibekas on March 18.

Das, 33, had become consumed with jealousy over unfounded suspicions his Romanian girlfriend Christinela Datcu was having sex with other men in the child’s bed.

Handing him a hospital order with no time limit, Mr Justice Spencer told Das: ‘Such was your paranoia that you would telephone her repeatedly from work to check up on her, and leave work during the night shift to see what she was doing and search for men you believed were hiding in the flat.

‘It is a vivid indication of the measure of your paranoid obsession that when you and she slept together you would remove your shoelaces and tie her underwear to yours to make sure she could not get out of bed without your knowing.

‘You have inflicted untold grief and pain.’ The Old Bailey heard on the night of the killing, Das told her ‘it’s going to be a special night’.

As she got out of the shower, Miss Datcu heard crying and rushed into Gabriel’s bedroom ‘to find a scene that was the stuff of nightmares’, prosecutor Zoe Johnson QC said.

Gabriel suffered multiple skull fractures and died that night. A young girl, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, also had ‘terrible head injuries’ but survived.

After killing Gabriel, Das left the flat in Finsbury Park, north London, and dumped a large claw hammer in a skip. Later, he called police and confessed.

Last month hotel worker Das pleaded guilty to Gabriel’s manslaughter by diminished responsibility and the other child’s attempted murder. Psychiatrists concluded that he was suffering from a ‘delusional disorder’.

Miss Datcu, a hotel cleaner, said in a statement that ‘the future had seemed wonderful’ but following the attack, she felt ‘like a robot’.