http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006580338,00.html
Bible rants of 'mad' cannibal
By ANDREW PARKER
December 16, 2006
AN immigrant was suffering from a mental illness when he carried out a horrific cannibal attack on a pensioner, a court heard yesterday.
Jehovah’s Witness Jan Ometak, 27, bit off part of Doug Morgan’s right thumb and swallowed it while laughing hysterically. He also tore chunks out of the 76-year-old’s face.
He had earlier been seen nearby carrying a Bible and ranting at lamp-posts and trees.
Slovakian Ometak had also crept into neighbour Dawn Wood’s house and shouted at her “in tongues” for nearly an hour before a male friend ordered him out.
Dawn, 26, married to husband Daniel, was three months pregnant and lost her baby. She has blamed the terror caused by Ometak for the miscarriage.
Ometak had attacked Doug at his home in Hereford last July after leaping through an open window as the pensioner and his wife Valerie were going to bed. The chicken factory worker — who was being monitored for depression by his GP — was arrested at the house after Valerie dialled 999.
| Horror ... where attack took place and, top left, Dawn and Daniel who lost baby. Inset right, Jan Ometak as a child |
Yesterday Ometak pleaded not guilty to attempted murder.
Peter Cooke, defending, told Worcester Crown Court he would be asking a jury to return a not guilty verdict by reason of insanity.
Judge Alistair McCreath said: “His plea is not a denial of the event.” Ometak will face trial next year. He was remanded in custody.