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A British man jailed for trying to shoot Donald Trump said voices in his head were screaming: "Kill him!"

Michael Sandford got within 20ft of then-Republican candidate Trump at a rally in Las Vegas before attempting to steal a police officer's gun.

The 21-year-old had spent the day before practising at a firing range with the same Glock pistol carried by US cops.

But Sandford said the gun got stuck as he was trying to pull it out of the officer's holster before he was quickly dragged to the ground by security.

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A judge took into account Sandford's history of mental illness and he was jailed for a year on December 13 last year after admitting to being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm and disrupting an official function.

He is now back home in Dorking, Surrey, with his mum Lynne.

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Now receiving regular medical help, Sandford has been able to recall the"psychotic episode" which led to his assassination attempt.

He had been living with his American girlfriend who, like millions of others, held strongly critical opinions of Trump.

Sandford, who has obsessive compulsive disorder and Asperger's syndrome, said his friends feared Trump was going to "destroy the country".

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But in his deteriorated mental state, Sandford became obsessed with killing Trump.

He told The Sun: "I was hearing voices telling me to kill Donald Trump.

“They’d been coming on for a while and getting stronger and more frequent.

"At one point they were screaming at me.

"Deep down I knew there was something wrong but I tried to convince myself it was OK."

Mum Lynne is relieved to have her son home and is now campaigning for new laws to help the families of people with mental illness to protect them from self-inflicted damage.

She had tried to stop Sandford from travelling to the US in the first place but had no legal powers to do so.