He killed three pensioners: Court acquitted him of charges, saying he was insane

Alexander Lewis-Ranwell [Alexander Lewis-Ranwell] struck Entney Payne [Anthony Payne], 80, with a hammer before shooting 84-year-old twins with a shovel, Dick and Roger Carter.

During the trial at the Royal Court of Exeter [Exeter], the jury heard how the killer was caught in mental illness and suffered from delusion that he had saved young girls from a group of pedophiles, writes Independent, records Periscopi.

The murders are located in two houses next to each other in Exeter and for just three hours during February 10 of this year.

The jury had to decide whether the killer “knew it was illegal” to kill the three pensioners.

The panel, consisting of eight men and four women, reached six hours and 15 minutes to make a unanimous decision.

Lewis-Ranwell was an educated man who smoked cannabis. /Periscope