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| Femi Nandap: Mentally ill student handed indefinite hospital order for Dr Jeroen Ensink murder | Femi Nandap: Mentally ill student handed indefinite hospital order for Dr Jeroen Ensink murder |
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| A student who stabbed a lecturer to death during a psychotic rage has been handed an indefinite hospital order. | A student who stabbed a lecturer to death during a psychotic rage has been handed an indefinite hospital order. |
| Femi Nandap, a 23-year-old Nigerian student, brutally stabbed Dr Jeroen Ensink as he left his flat in Islington, north London in December last year. | |
| The 41-year-old victim had gone out to post cards announcing the birth of his daughter, Fleur, just 10 days before. | |
| When the academic failed to return home, his wife, Nadja, went outside to find police had cordoned off the street and the cards her husband had been carrying strewn over the pavement. | When the academic failed to return home, his wife, Nadja, went outside to find police had cordoned off the street and the cards her husband had been carrying strewn over the pavement. |
| Nandap, resident of Woolwich, south London, was suffering from a cannabis-induced psychosis at the time of the killing. He admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility and was handed a hospital order without a time limit. | |
| The prosecution admitted during the hearing at the Old Bailey that a decision to drop charges of having a knife and assaulting a police officer six days before the fatal stabbing was an error. | |
| Dr Ensink’s wife demanded an inquiry into why the charges had been dropped against Nandap. | |
| Reading her victim impact statement she called for an independent investigation into failings by both the mental health service and the legal system. | |
| Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC described the victim as a “truly remarkable man” whose death “is a loss to a large portion of the world’s poor”. | |
| “I express the hope that those in a position to do so will investigate all aspects of this case and the appropriate lessons will be learned," he said. | |
| Additional reporting by Press Association |