Killer paratrooper battered with iron bar as he worked out in high security hospital gym
A former paratrooper who shot dead two of his colleagues in Iraq was battered with a metal bar as he worked out in a high security hospital gym, a court heard. David O'Brien has now been jailed for life for attempting to murder fellow patient Daniel Fitzsimons at Ashworth psychiatric hospital, the Liverpool Echo reports.
He also told them he had constructed an improvised weapon by binding three sharpened pencils together and that he 'intended to stab his victims in the eyes' with it. Such an implement was then discovered in the convicted rapist's room. When interviewed by police later the same day, O'Brien made 'concerning admissions' - saying he would 'try to kill him again' and making repeated threats to kill staff members while in custody. He was jailed for life with a minimum term of seven years and two months the following year. B
His assailant claimed afterwards that he had struck him with another toothbrush which had a razor blade melted into its handle as he was 'stealing from him'. Guards also found him with a four-inch spike with a cloth wrapped around it. "We had a few clashes. I hadn't gone there on the offensive or defensive. I've made a lot of enemies over the years, but this man would not leave me alone and he wouldn't leave anyone else alone. I don't like bullies.
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