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Mohamed Ismail aged 30, a native of British Somaliland, unemployed labourer of Spital Hill, Sheffield. was at Sheffield on Saturday remanded in custody until January 11, charged with triple capital murder.

Mad May wrote:He didnt do it to get back at racists, miskiinka was crazy.

he Medical Officer at Armley Jail in Leeds where he was being held on remand that declared that there was unmistakable evidence that he was insane. He believed that evil voices spoke to him through the electrical system and that he had smashed the light bulbs to stop the voices reaching him.

Unfortunately, we the British, deported him back to Somalia after six months. A pub talk by local historian Douglas Lamb stated that Ishmail, had ran amok when he returned home and was gunned down.

was a former acquaintance of Ishmail who had known him in both Somalia and Sheffield who contacted The Sheffield Star a day after the article appeared. This is the source of the information about Ishmail's death. This aquaintance states that in the late 1960's he ran amok in a village in Somalia, murdering several villagers before he was himself killed. It appears that the doctors at Broadmoor had made an incorrect diagnosis!