A man stabbed his sister-in-law as she lay in bed under the belief she was ‘possessed by an evil spirit’.

Abdullahi Tijani (previously recorded as Abdullahi Tuani) attacked the woman in the early hours of the morning on October 24 last year. She was left with stab wounds to her arms and legs.

After being arrested he told psychiatrists that he believed she was ‘possessed’ by an ‘evil spirit’ and that she intended to hurt his brother using ‘black magic’.

Tijani, 26, had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and is receiving treatment within Stockton Hall hospital.

He was initially charged with attempted murder, but after pleading guilty to a lesser offence of wounding with intent on the first day of his trial earlier this week, he was handed an indefinite hospital order.

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