Man who killed three pensioners 'believed they were paedophiles'

Exeter murder trial hears that Alexander Lewis-Ranwell had a history of mental illness

A man with a history of mental illness killed an 80-year-old with a hammer then, hours later, 84-year-old twins with a spade in the deluded belief they were members of a paedophile ring, a jury has heard.

Alexander Lewis-Ranwell, 28, from Croyde, north Devon, who had paranoid schizophrenia, denies murdering twins Dick and Roger Carter and Anthony Payne at their homes in Exeter.