Series of failures allowed mentally ill man to be freed from custody hours before he bludgeoned three pensioners to death, inquest jury concludes

Paranoid schizophrenic Alexander Lewis-Ranwell attacked Anthony Payne, 80, with a hammer and killed identical twins Dick and Roger Carter, 84, with a saw on February 10, 2019 in Exeter.

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