Triple Killer Alexander Lewis-Ranwell Not Guilty Of Murder Due To Insanity

[♥ Lily ♥]

Triple Killer Alexander Lewis-Ranwell Not Guilty Of Murder Due To Insanity

2nd December 2019


Alexander Lewis-Ranwell was arrested twice in the two days before he killed the three men

A man who killed three elderly men because he wrongly believed they were paedophiles has been cleared of murder.

Exeter Crown Court in Devon, south-west England, heard Alexander Lewis-Ranwell battered his victims - all in their 80s - with a shovel and a hammer in a "whirlwind of destruction".

He has paranoid schizophrenia and was having delusions about saving girls from a paedophile ring, jurors heard.

The 28-year-old was found not guilty by reason of insanity after jurors decided he "did not know it was illegal".

Twins Richard and Roger Carter, 84, and Anthony Payne, 80, were bludgeoned on 10 February.

The court heard Lewis-Ranwell was arrested and released by police twice in the lead-up to the killings.


Lewis-Ranwell caught on CCTV on the day of the killings

In a statement, the head of custody for G4S Health Services, Jon Allen, said the company "stood by their decision" that "Lewis-Ranwell was not suicidal and did not meet the requirements of a full Mental Health Act assessment in the out-of-hours period".

Head of major crime at Devon and Cornwall Police, Det Supt Mike West, said: "We fully accept our responsibilities to look after those detained in our custody units.

"However, it is unreasonable to suggest that police officers or staff, in these circumstances, should have over-ridden decisions made by those who are trained, qualified and skilled in health care."

Following the trial Mr Payne's family said they were "still profoundly shocked" and described the victims as "gentle, kind and caring gentlemen".

The family of the Carter brothers said they were "quiet" twins who "loved the outdoors, wildlife and bird watching" and "were born, lived and died at the house in Cowick Lane".

Full article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-50591495

[The Lawspeaker]

Surely he could be sectioned for life ? Locked up in a mental institution. That would be possible here (terbeschikkingstelling - TBS).

[♥ Lily ♥]

Surely he could be sectioned for life ? Locked up in a mental institution. That would be possible here (terbeschikkingstelling - TBS).

Aye, hear hear! If he's not responsible for his own actions due to insanity - then he should have had an appointed professional carer to take responsibility for him instead. The mental health services and social services have blood on their hands for not keeping this dangerously sick man medicated and monitored in a secure hospital or institution in order to protect the public. There needs to be a full police investigation and legal inquiry on how the mental health services have failed to protect the public by allowing him to roam the streets in his mental state. They should be fired from their jobs and prosecuted for severe negligence.

[Kamal900]

Insanity? Are you fucking kidding me? Then why do you have such people roaming down the streets of England? This reminded me a lot of the game, Outlast, where sick minded prisoners took over a mental asylum and start killing everyone on sight while the government simply covered up the incident from public eye.

[♥ Lily ♥]

Insanity defences are rare in both the U.S. and U.K. according to professors and criminologists in crime documentaries I've watched.

A lot of serial killers and murderers will try to plead insanity to escape the death penalty in the U.S. or life imprisonment in the U.K.... but very few psychiatrists in the U.S. find them to be actually insane.

Most serial killers and murderers can be found to have a range of mental health problems (ranging from schizophrenia to psychopathy to personality disorders, etc.) Ted Buny and Jeffrey Dahmer did even sicker crimes and killed even more victims... and neither of them were ever found to be insane.

In this CCTV photo (below) of this allegedly 'insane' murderer in question, (taken on the day of the murders,) he doesn't look insane. He's wearing clothes and isn't crawling naked on the floor, nor screaming at the treees like an insane person in the street. He's not drinking petrol or eating faeces like a madman who's truly lost his mind. A genuinely insane person wouldn't try to cover their crimes or run from the police as they wouldn't realise that they'd committed an offence.



Some criminals are 'insane' when the timing suits them to be insane inbetween prosecution and court trial hearings... like they're conveniently able to switch their insanity on and off. He didn't look insane at the time of committing the crimes in that CCTV photo.

He must have acted insane infront of the psychiatrists after committing the crimes to help his insanity defence and evade justice. They have to be very good actors in order to manipulate and deceive psychiatrists.

Just like some devious, manipulative, intelligent, and cunning serial killers have managed to deceive and fool doctors that they were well enough to be released into society... only for them to kill people again.

A convicted black cannibal in north London killed and ate his victim and later fooled psychiatrists in prison that he'd changed, so he was released back into society. He then killed and ate a second victim. Then after he was incarcerated he killed an inmate with a pencil.

I read a news article he may be due for release into society again. The doctors have blood on their hands and these incurable sickos should never be released.

In the U.S. a lot of killers who are facing the death penalty if found guilty try to act insane. Less than 1% of murderers with mental health illnesses are found by psychiatrists to be actually insane according to professors.

Here's an example of a man charged with murder in the U.S. who is obviously play-acting and pretending to be insane to avoid tough U.S. criminal justice sentencing of hundreds of years in jail or the Death Penalty in numerous U.S. states. Pathetic acting.


The criminally insane in the U.K. are usually detained and locked inside Broadmoor hospital and prison for the U.K.'s most dangerous and insane criminals.