THIS chilling X-Ray shows how close Ephraim Norman - who stabbed Andrew Else to death in an unprovoked attack in Selsdon - came to killing a 15-year-old boy several weeks earlier.
Norman, of Kensington Avenue, Thornton Heath, was detained under the Mental Health Act at the Old Bailey today after admitting killing Mr Else, 52, on April 24, 2014. He also pleaded guilty to attempted murder for the attack on the boy.
Mr Else was stabbed 200 times by Norman, a paranoid schizophrenic, in an alleyway near Selsdon Park Road.
While being interviewed by police about the attack he admitted stabbing a teenager in Beulah Hill at the junction with Norbury Hill on April 6.
Police were called to the scene at 00.21am and found the boy, now 16, had been stabbed with such ferocity at the base of his skull that the knife went straight through, just missing his spinal column, and snapped away from its handle.
Norman stole small change from the teenager and took his mobile phone, before handing it back and urging him to call the police. He then fled the scene.
Judge Anthony Morris said: "It is a miracle no vital organs for were affected and the boy has made a reasonably good recovery from what must have been a terrifying experience."
