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| Man, 24, guilty of vicar killing | Man, 24, guilty of vicar killing |
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| A 24-year-old man has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a vicar on the grounds of diminished responsibility. | A 24-year-old man has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a vicar on the grounds of diminished responsibility. |
| Geraint Evans of Trecynon, near Aberdare, repeatedly stabbed Father Paul Bennett on 14 March in the grounds of St Fagan's Church, Trecynon. | Geraint Evans of Trecynon, near Aberdare, repeatedly stabbed Father Paul Bennett on 14 March in the grounds of St Fagan's Church, Trecynon. |
| Father Bennett, 59, a married father of two, was attacked yards from the Trecynon church in front of his wife. | Father Bennett, 59, a married father of two, was attacked yards from the Trecynon church in front of his wife. |
| Evans had previous pleaded not guilty. His plea was accepted by the prosecution at Cardiff Crown Court. | Evans had previous pleaded not guilty. His plea was accepted by the prosecution at Cardiff Crown Court. |
| The court heard that Evans, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, was obsessed with both God and the devil and was fixated with religion. | The court heard that Evans, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, was obsessed with both God and the devil and was fixated with religion. |
| Father Paul Bennet had been a vicar for 22 year, five in Aberdare | Father Paul Bennet had been a vicar for 22 year, five in Aberdare |
| As well as smoking cannabis, he inhaled lighter fluid on a daily basis, the hearing was told. | As well as smoking cannabis, he inhaled lighter fluid on a daily basis, the hearing was told. |
| Evans, who had been in care as a teenager and had been in a young offenders institute, was a user of satanic websites and wrote under the pseudonym of Jack Blade. | |
| He was living in a flat close to the vicarage where Father Bennett, who was profoundly deaf, lived with his wife. | |
| A popular vicar with three churches under this stewardship, he was described as being at the "very centre of his community". | |
| During his funeral in April, assistant bishop of Llandaff, the Right Reverend David Yeoman, described Father Bennett as relaxed and often humorous person and a "committed and dedicated priest". |