'Today's sentence is not the outcome Isaac's family had hoped for - and certainly not the justice they feel he deserved.'

Well, they'll just have to lump it, like everyone else whose loved ones have been slaughtered by mental patients who are being 'cared for in the community'. This case does at least reverse the usual racial element.

In sentencing, Judge Blair said: 'It was a racist attack. Let's make no bones about it, the things you said at the time and afterwards make plain that that was a feature of your behaviour at that moment in time.

'I'm faced with a very stark choice because for the facts that have been described to me you plainly are a danger and this is a case where, as I have already made comment in the submissions of the barristers, requires imprisonment for life.

'I have been persuaded that it would be inappropriate to pass a hybrid order.

'I am going to impose a hospital order under section 37 of the mental health act with restrictions required under 41 of the mental health act.

'You can expect that you will be very much older before any risk will be taken for you beginning to have any access to the public.'

I wouldn't be too sure about that, if I were you...