A MAN has been sent to a high security hospital for life for stabbing a musician to death. Jonathan Mills, a paranoid schizophrenic,  had been discharged from hospital just 10 days earlier after being sectioned under the Mental Health Act.

He thought Jewish people were to blame for his prescription tablets not being changed and walked up to father-of-three Michael Kahan, who he thought was Jewish, and stabbed him twice in the stomach near a bagel bakery in Crumpsall, Manchester.

Mr Kahan, 39, a talented violinist who played concerts around the world, had gone to the shop to buy bagels for his family on a Sunday morning in June.

Mills, 31, later told a psychiatrist: "I was having thoughts of attacking a Jew. I got out of the car. I heard a voice saying, 'Do it. Do it now.'

"I stabbed him twice in the stomach. I didn't say anything to him. I thought he was Jewish. He looked Jewish."

Mills, from Chadderton, Oldham, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Mr Kahan on the grounds of diminished responsibility at Manchester Crown Court.

Judge Anthony Gee ordered that he should be kept in a high security unit indefinitely.

CCTV footage of the horrific attack on Mr Kahan was shown to the court.

Mills, who has a long history of serious mental illness and failure to comply with his medication, is seen walking across Middleton Road and attacking Mr Kahan. 

He had been discharged from hospital just 10 days earlier after being sectioned under the Mental Health Act and kept as an inpatient for five months.

Mr Kahan had been due later in the day to meet his son Max, 13. The boy was found waiting in the street for his father with a box of chocolates for his father's birthday - unaware that he'd been stabbed to death.

Mills was arrested the next day at his home and four knives were found in his room.

When interviewed by police he said he did not remember what had happened as he was drugged up on Clozaril - one of the drugs he had been prescribed for his condition.

But in a later interview with a psychiatrist he said he had been feeling on edge for some time and had woken up that morning with the thought of going to Crumpsall with a knife.

He told the psychiatrist that he had an idea Jewish people were behind him not getting tablets for his condition changed.

The court was told Mills had been admitted to hospital for a lengthy period in 2001 and then had managed his mental illness until September 2007 when he was sectioned again and admitted to hospital for two months.

He was admitted again in January 2008 and remained in hospital until May this year.

Defending, Richard Marks QC, said: "This case represents an appalling tragedy so far as the victim and his family is concerned. One's heart goes out to the family for the dreadful shocking loss of an innocent, good and much-loved man. "It is a tragedy for the defendant and his family as they will have to live with the knowledge of the terrible thing he did."