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Police issued pictures of Ghodratollah Barani after he went on the run from a secure home in May. The 31-year-old Afghan was being detained after pleading guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility for killing a rough sleeper in London. He has now turned up across the Channel but authorities have no idea how.


He was handed an indefinite hospital order after the Old Bailey was told he killed after “hearing voices telling him to kill someone so he could be king”. Hours after he strangled the stranger in Marble Arch in 2013 he turned up at Buckingham Palace and demanded to see the Queen. Barani was placed in care at the Evergreen Lodge home in Croydon, south London.

GETTY Authorities don't know how the killer managed to escape

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