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Dr Derek Robinson and his wife Jean
Daniel Gonzalez
A knife used by Gonzalez |
Killer's search for fame ends in life behind bars
Couple among victims picked at random by bored psychopath
A SERIAL killer who murdered four strangers – including
a popular Highgate couple – “to get my 15 minutes
of fame” will be behind bars until the day he dies.
Daniel Gonzalez, 25, has been branded “the most dangerous
and unpredictable patient” ever to be held at Broadmoor
maximum security hospital in Berkshire, where he is to serve
the first part of his “whole life” sentence.
Gonzalez has already attacked while on remand awaiting his Old
Bailey trial. He has also tried to slit his veins in suicide
bids and been escorted to an outside hospital by six armed police
officers in riot gear.
He showed no emotion as he was handed six life terms by Judge
Ann Goddard, QC, on Friday after being found guilty of four
murder counts and two of attempted murder.
The judge told him: “This is a case where life should mean
life. You brought unspeakable grief to the lives of the families
of those you killed.
“You chose to kill in places where there would be no witnesses.
And you chose your victims because they were vulnerable.”
It took a jury 90 minutes to reject the paranoid schizophrenic’s
claim of diminished responsibility.
Gonzalez accepted blame for six random attacks during a three-day
“mission to kill” in September 2004, but maintained
he was controlled “by voices in my head ordering me to
stab”.
Prosecutor Richard Horwell told the jury: “Although he
has a severe personality defect, he fuelled himself with drink
and drugs and after his capture he feigned mental illness. The
straightforward explanation for his conduct is that he is a
psychopath driven by boredom to kill.
“He found sobriety intolerable. He got his excitement from
drink and drugs, and killed for pleasure.”
Gonzalez, from Woking, Surrey, slit the throat of a 73-year-old
woman in West Sussex, and two days later repeatedly stabbed
former Camden publican Kevin Molloy, 46, in Tottenham High Road
at 5am.
That same morning, he barged through the front door of the home
of retired paediatrician Dr Derek Robinson, 76, and his wife
Jean, 68, a former music teacher, in Makepeace Avenue, Highgate.
“Good morning, I’ve come to kill you,” he announced
to the couple before stabbing them to death in the hallway.
He would have continued his bloodbath if he had not been arrested
on a platform at Tottenham Court Road Tube station. |
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