The parents of a psychology graduate stabbed to death by a paranoid schizophrenic last night demanded to know why their daughter’s killer was allowed to walk the streets.

Care worker Ashleigh Ewing, 22, was sent alone to the home of Ronald Dixon, a 35-year-old with a violent past whose behaviour was becoming increasingly erratic.

In the words of his defence counsel, his “warning lights were flashing”. A few months before Miss Ewing’s visit, he had been stopped by police outside Buckingham Palace, threatening to kill the Queen.

Dixon snapped and launched his ferocious attack on Miss Ewing in May last year, just after she had given him a letter reminding him of a debt. She was stabbed 39 times and he broke three knives in the attack.

Dixon, previously convicted of a hammer attack on his sleeping parents in 1994, took a shower before handing himself into police.

Read the full story at Daily mail

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