Man pleads guilty to killing US tourist in London
A 19-year-old has pleaded guilty in court to killing a US teacher in a random attack at London’s Russell Square last year.
Zakaria Bulhan, of Tooting, London, denied the murder of 64-year-old retired teacher Darlene Horton, but admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
He also pleaded not guilty to five counts of attempted murder but admitted charges of wounding with intent on five other victims who were injured in the knife attack on August 3 2016.
The court heard he had been suffering from acute paranoid schizophrenia.
Mother-of-two Mrs Horton was in London with her husband and had been due to return home to Florida the day after the attack.
Bulhan is a Norwegian national who moved to the UK in 2002. He will be sentenced later this week.
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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