Karandeep Mahay is currently being held in a secure hospital to receive specialist psychological treatment after Bradford Crown Court found he posed a significant risk of harm to the public.
Prosecutor Abdul Shakur said a 29-year-old man who lived next door to Ms Mahay in Leeds Road, Bradford, heard a commotion outside at around 10am on February 7 last year and went to investigate.
He witnessed Mahay, who he knew had mental health issues, “screaming and screaming” in an alley.
The man then threw trash cans around, then banged on the door of a nearby home, calling the female resident a “shithole” and “a piece of shit.”
The court heard that Mr Mahay believed his neighbor was trying to infect him with HIV by sleeping with him.
The man asked Mahay what he was doing, but he walked away toward the house.
Shortly afterward, he saw Mahey come out of the back window of the attic with a rifle and fired two shots at him.
The incident was reported to the police.
A neighbor was on his way to work when he saw Mayhey in the street with a black handgun.
The neighbor ran back inside the house, afraid of what would happen to him.
Police arrived at 10:30, arrested Mayhey, and searched his home. A variety of weapons were found, including multiple pistols, rifles, bows, several knives, a homemade axe, body armor, bullets, ball bearings and pellets.
The rifle and pistol were later determined to be air weapons. A small amount of cannabis resin was also found.
Mayhey was questioned twice by police, but he replied, “No comment.”
In a victim statement, the neighbor said she thought it was Mayhey who said, “Wait until I get back.” I’m going to finish the job,” and I was going to kill him.
He said his wife and children had been forced to leave their family home and did not want to return to live next door to Mahay. They were “afraid” of his return.
At one point, the man took three weeks off work due to stress and anxiety.
Rebecca Randall comfortingly said Mayhey's severe mental health problems, including experiencing auditory hallucinations, meant he lacked insight into his crimes.
She said he needed “lifelong professional psychological treatment” to recover and protect the public.
Psychiatrist Dr Gemma Smith said Ms Mayhey is currently in the secure Newton Lodge Hospital in Wakefield and suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.
She said: “My concern is that Ms Mayhey is at great risk of holding and acting on delusional beliefs, often of a persecutory nature, when she is unwell.
“And there also seems to be a pattern of using weapons for self-defense. That would be my biggest concern in this case.”
Honorable Judge Anesh Pema expressed concern that Mayhey would slip through the “cracks in the system” if he was released from specialist hospital treatment and transferred to a penal institution.
He said: “In this case, the public would be much better protected by introducing a section 37 order (under the Mental Health Act 1983) and a section 41 restriction order, preventing them from being discharged from hospital until Both the Secretary of State and the First-tier Tribunal believe he can be safely released with appropriate supervision.
“For your own well-being and the protection of the public, you will be admitted and detained at Newton Lodge Hospital.
“I can't say how long that will last.”
Judge Pema imposed a 10-year restraining order on Mahay, banning him from contacting the victim.
It also ordered the confiscation and destruction of various weapons, ammunition and cannabis.
