Harry Street, a killer of five and ex-psychiatric patient, held over arsenal
Fears ex-psychiatric patient was planning another spree with guns, makeshift bomb
A British man who shot dead five people in 1978 and was held in a mental hospital for 15 years has been rearrested and detained indefinitely, after a weapons arsenal found at his home raised fears he planned another killing spree.
Harry Street, 70, assembled a cache of six guns, dozens of home-made bullets and a makeshift bomb at his home in the city of Birmingham.
Street was detained in a psychiatric hospital from 1979 to 1994 after shooting dead three neighbours and a couple who ran a filling station, and wounding several others in a killing spree.
He changed his name from Barry Williams to Harry Street after his release and moved to a new address, where he lived under the radar of police.
On Monday, a court found that from 2007, Street had become obsessed with his new neighbour in a way that reflected events prior to his previous attack. Street believed that his neighbour was harassing him.
He admitted threatening his neighbour, throwing items onto his roof, drilling into walls late at night and driving past his new house after he moved out.