Man admits ‘motiveless’ killing of mobility scooter rider after leaving jail

Thomas O’Halloran was stabbed in west London by Lee Byer who had paranoid schizophrenia and had been released five days before

A man has admitted to the manslaughter by diminished responsibility of an 87-year-old mobility scooter rider in a “motiveless” knife attack in west London five days after being released from prison.

Lee Byer, 45, stabbed Thomas O’Halloran in the neck and chest in Greenford in 2022. It can now be reported that Byer had numerous previous convictions and days earlier had been released from Wormwood Scrubs prison in south-west London.