Headless Body Found in England Alley

[Morbid]

A bloody duvet stuffed into a supermarket cage bore his lifeless corpse while his severed head was found in a canal nearby, in Kilburn — just north of London.


Lakhdar Ouyahia, 43, was an Algerian national. A pedestrian discovered his body, police his head, reports the BBC.
Mohamed Boudjenane, 45, has been charged with murder and is expected to appear in court on Monday, the BBC writes. A man and a woman have also been arrested and are being questioned on suspicion of assisting in Ouyahia's death.
Forensic pathologists have begun investigating the cause of his murder but as of present results have proven inconclusive.


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[WryBread]

This reminds me of my favorite newspaper headline: "Police Determine Headless Body is Woman's."

Seems to me that hardly qualifies as impressive police work. Even a blind person could figure that out.

 

[Sevens My Charm]

An illegal immigrant who raped a nanny and decapitated his neighbour had his life sentence cut by six years today.

Algerian Mohamed Boudjenane, 49, assaulted the Filipina woman and shaved off her hair before killing Lakhdar Ouyahia, 43, in the belief the two were having an affair.

Boudjenane was captured on CCTV carrying the head of Mr Ouyahia in a plastic bag on a bus to Regents Canal in Maida Vale, West London.

The headless corpse was found wrapped in a duvet two days later at the back of a supermarket near Boudjenane's home in Kilburn, North-West London.

The Algerian showed police where he had thrown the head in a canal and police divers recovered it from the water.

But he claimed he had no memory of hitting Mr Ouyahia with a hammer and hacking off his head with a meat cleaver.

Judge Christopher Moss QC jailed the Algerian for life, with a minimum term of 22 years.

But the murder conviction was quashed last year after the Court of Appeal ruled the trial judge had misdirected the jury on psychiatric evidence.

When the case was referred back to the Old Bailey in September this year, Boudjenane pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.

The Recorder of London, Judge Peter Beaumont QC, jailed him for life with a minimum term of 16 years after hearing he suffered from a ‘paranoid and delusional disorder’ at the time of the killing.

The sentence will run concurrently with the 15-year jail term imposed in 2008 for the rape and false imprisonment offences.

Boudjenane met the 42-year-old Filipina nanny at a party a few months before the attack, the Old Bailey heard at the original trial.

Illegal immigrant who hacked off neighbour's head with meat cleaver has his sentence CUT by six years

Algerian Mohamed Boudjenane, 49, raped a nanny and then killed Lakhdar Ouyahia and carried his head in a plastic bag to Regents Canal in West London.

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