UK man who beheaded woman found not guilty

A UK man who beheaded an elderly woman has been cleared of murder on the grounds of insanity.

A BRITISH man who beheaded an 82-year-old woman in her backyard has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity but will be locked up indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital.

NICHOLAS Salvador stabbed Palmira Silva to death in north London in September. He cut off her head and held it aloft, a grisly scene captured by a police helicopter.