"There are more questions than answers..."

Edd Hetherington, for Maximen, told the court his client had suffered a developmental disorder that was a combination of a learning difficulty and a communication disorder.

Judge Hart said there was no 'logical explanation' for his offending and said it was not due to 'any recognised mental illness or diagnosed personality disorder'.

He added: 'There is no logical explanation for any of your offending other than that you are a highly dangerous young man with a wholly distorted view of life and appropriate conduct.

'It is not due to any recognised mental illness or diagnosed personality disorder and I can only conclude that it is simply because, for whatever reason, you are just like that, perhaps as a consequence of the impact of your earlier life experiences and the difficulties under which you labour.'

He doesn't appear to have come from a broken home, so what 'earlier life experiences' the judge is referring to is a mystery. 

And nor is there any reference to cannabis use, which appears so often in stories where young (often black) men launch ferocious assaults on complete strangers.  

Jailing Maximen for life with a minimum term of 12 years, Judge Hart described him as a 'highly dangerous' man.

The judge added: 'There is no way of knowing when, if ever, you will cease to be as dangerous an individual as you are now and as you were in October and November 2019.

'You continue to deny, albeit somewhat half-heartedly at times, your offending and there is no way in which your dangerousness can be satisfactorily addressed or remediated.'

He committed the murderous assaults at the age of 17, In 12 years time, he'll be 29. Still capable of violence. 

Shouldn't he be locked away until he's no longer physically capable of violence? 

Senior Investigating Officer, Detective Chief Inspector Kristina Windsor, said: 'The very thought of being randomly attacked by a stranger with a knife in your own home or while sat on a public bench is terrifying and I'd like to praise the immense bravery and courage all the victims and witnesses have shown.

'I'd also like to reassure the public that attacks of this nature are extremely rare in Avon and Somerset.'

But they appear to be increasing if you look at the country as a whole. Shouldn't someone be investigating this phenomenon? 

Or at the very least, the phenomenon of why certain victims seem to want to display the sort of reflexive cringing and obsequiousness that I find even more scary than murderous attacks by strangers.