Smail Ayad deemed mentally ill after stabbing backpackers Mia Ayliffe-Chung and Tom Jackson in Queensland in 2016A man who fatally stabbed two British backpackers at a north Queensland hostel will not go on trial for the killings,a court has ruled. Justice Jean Dalton discontinued criminal proceedings against Smail Ayad, from France, or after finding he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia at the time of the attack,and was under a delusion that people wanted to abolish him.
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Source: guardian.co.uk