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Man jailed for killing neighbour | Man jailed for killing neighbour |
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A man has been jailed for life at the Old Bailey for killing a Good Samaritan who was stabbed 130 times when he went to help an elderly woman neighbour. | |
Jon Cooper-Taylor, 60, was attacked with a knife and scissors and left to bleed to death while Rafiq Kashmiri cut and punched the 83-year-old woman. | Jon Cooper-Taylor, 60, was attacked with a knife and scissors and left to bleed to death while Rafiq Kashmiri cut and punched the 83-year-old woman. |
Kashmiri, 50, from Tooting, had already sexually assaulted the woman at her home in South Norwood, south London. | |
The judge told him he would have to serve a minimum of 10 years in prison. | The judge told him he would have to serve a minimum of 10 years in prison. |
Kashmiri had pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. | Kashmiri had pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. |
Mr Cooper-Taylor, a publishing and IT consultant, went to help the elderly woman at her home in June 2006 after hearing a noise. | |
The attack was uncontrollable and sustained" Judge Richard Hawkins | |
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had invited Kashmiri to her house for tea after he had helped her when she fell from a bus a month earlier. | The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had invited Kashmiri to her house for tea after he had helped her when she fell from a bus a month earlier. |
Kashmiri attacked Mr Cooper-Taylor, known as a "gentle giant" in a blind rage, the Old Bailey heard. | |
Kashmiri was also given a 10-year indeterminate sentence for wounding the woman and four years for sexual assault. The terms will run concurrently. | |
Doctors agreed he suffered bipolar disorder made worse by smoking cannabis. | |
'Kind and helpful' | |
Mr Cooper-Taylor was secretary of the local residents' association and ran errands and fetched prescriptions for elderly people. | |
Judge Richard Hawkins told Kashmiri that Mr Taylor was: "Obviously a kind neighbour. | |
"You killed him when he came to protect her. The attack was uncontrollable and sustained." | |
Miss Riel Karmy-Jones, prosecuting, said the woman had tried to stop the attack on Mr Cooper-Taylor by hitting Kashmiri with her stick. | |
But he turned on her and punched her causing permanent nerve damage to her face. | |
She also suffered a broken rib and right hand, and was slashed five times on her face. | |
The woman still had flashbacks and had been forced to leave her home of 30 years. | |
Speaking of Mr Cooper-Taylor, she said: "He was always kind and helpful to his neighbours. He was described as a gentle giant." |
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