Michael Harkin, 35, is detained indefinitely after killing Dan Childs, 38, at HMP Bristol.
A prisoner has been sentenced to a hospital order after being convicted of strangling his cellmate to death with a TV aerial cord, before "tucking him up" in bedsheets.
Bristol Crown Court heard how Mr Childs told another inmate: "My cellmate won't let me sleep. He tells me if I go to sleep he'll suffocate me."The court heard how a former cellmate, who had spent just one night sharing with Harkin, demanded to be moved saying "there was something not right" about him.
On the evening of June 4, Harkin killed Mr Childs "by strangling him with the co-axial cord from the cell TV" the court was told. "In terms of why you killed Mr Childs, it appears that Mr Childs had the misfortune to have 'child' in his name and this led you to the delusional belief that he was a paedophile, which was completely, and absolutely, untrue and had no basis in fact whatsoever," the judge continued.
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