A paranoid schizophrenic who stabbed his nine-year-old brother to death has been ordered to be detained indefinitely at a top security hospital.

Daniel Taylor, 21, attacked his brother Jack at their sister's house in Rookes Avenue, Wibsey, Bradford, in February last year, leaving him with horrific injuries.

Bradford Crown Court was told today he had doted on Jack when he was born, they were close and he loved him very much. But Simon Bourne-Arton QC, prosecuting, said Taylor had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia a number of years earlier and also had problems with cannabis use and alcohol.

Sentencing Taylor for manslaughter and the offence of wounding his sister, Rachel, which he also admitted, Judge James Goss QC said he was satisfied he presented a continuing danger to himself and others. He ordered him to be detained indefinitely at the top-security Rampton Special Hospital in Nottinghamshire.

Taylor, of Richardson Avenue, Wibsey, had admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.

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