British tourist begged for help before beheading
A truly horrifying story out of the Canary Islands: A man emerged from a supermarket there yesterday morning holding a human head. The suspect, a homeless Bulgarian man with a police record identified as Deyan Valentinov, apparently beheaded a British woman in a random attack on the Spanish resort island of Tenerife. Valentinov was captured by security guards after he ran out of the supermarket and arrested. He is believed to have entered the shop and stolen a knife that he then used to assault the woman, whose identity hasn’t been released.
Regional newspaper La Opinion reported the suspect had received treatment at the psychiatric unit of a local hospital in February after being involved in previous violent incidents, reports the AP.
Before the horrifying attack that took her life Friday, Jennifer Mills-Westley took refuge in a social security office and told a security guard there that a vagrant had threatened her. But after waiting for her tormentor to move on, Mills-Westley left and entered the discount store next door. There, 28-year-old homeless man Deyan Valentinov Deyanov found her again and attacked her, claiming to be “a prophet of God” as he beheaded the 60-year-old retiree. Authorities know of no reason Mills-Westley was targeted, and one official says she was “chosen … by chance.”
Deyanov was known around Tenerife for being unpredictable and violent and had had several run-ins with police, but it’s not clear whether Mills-Westley, who divided her time between the Spanish resort island, England, and France, knew about his reputation. In February, he left a psychiatric unit where he was receiving treatment for paranoid schizophrenia, the Telegraph reports. Mills-Westley’s family released a statement describing the mother and grandmother as “full of life, generous of heart, would do anything for anyone.”
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The media over here in Blighty are saying she was given sanctuary in a security office before deciding the maniac had gone. On leaving said ‘sanctuary’ it turned out he hadn’t.
Apparently he held aloft her severed head as families were walking by to the beach. I shudder to think what nightmares said families children will be having right now.
He was reportedly finally felled by a passing motor cyclist who threw his crash helmet at him knocking him to the ground.
Nobody deserves to die like that – ask Ken Bigley…well…you can’t as he did but I’m sure he would agree….
Horrific is an understatement.
In Europe ‘mad people’ are frequently released from asylums (loony bins) as it is believed ‘care in the community’ is the more humane approach by the authorities.
I wonder what Jennifer would say about that – if she could comment anymore.
The ‘authorities’ and European legislation are to blame.
Not that they will ever admit it or change their ways as a result of course…they’re ‘political’ and when did politics ever acknowledge ‘it’ was wrong eh?
Why didn’t someone help this poor woman. The guy did this is a supermarket for heaven’s sake and apparently was asking people for a very big knife. How sad for the family.