A MAN who carried out a frenzied attack on a housemate using a knife and a broken bedside cabinet in Foleshill has been detained indefinitely in a secure psychiatric unit.

Paranoid schizophrenic Wojciek Kazimierowski pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent and a further charge of common assault.

He was made subject to a hospital order under the Mental Health Act.

The crown court in Leamington heard Kazimierowski, 32, was living in Mulliner Street, Foleshill, Coventry, at the time.

His two victims also lived there.

On the advice of two psychiatrists, Judge Sylvia de Bertodano also imposed a restriction order under which Kazimierowski can only be released when a mental health tribunal decides it is safe to do so.

Prosecutor Nigel Wilkins said that in January last year Kazimierowski went into a fellow resident called Petr’s room in the early hours to ask for a cigarette.

After one was rolled for him, he said he wanted some food and went to the room of a man named Vladimir.

“The defendant then came back to Petr’s room and picked up a knife and went as if to stab him, but held short,” said Mr Wilkins.

Kazimierowski then walked into 62-year-old Vladimir’s room with the knife and began stabbing him.

He also smashed up a bedside cabinet and viciously beat him with a section of it before taking his badly-injured victim into the kitchen.

There was ‘blood everywhere,’ and he ordered Petr to clean it up before they took Vladimir back to his room and put him in bed.

The next morning Vladimir was found in bed covered in blood.

The police and an ambulance were called, and Vladimir was rushed to hospital where he had to undergo surgery for his injuries which included an open break to his leg, which needed pinning, and multiple stab wounds to his head, hands and leg.

Kazimierowski later handed himself in, saying he knew the police wanted him, but did not know what for, adding that he could not remember anything because he had been drinking and taking drugs.

Referring to the psychiatric reports on Kazimierowski, his barrister Andrew Molloy pointed out that he has been diagnosed as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.

The reports concluded that his condition was ‘‘of such a degree that it warrants treatment in hospital for his safety and for the safety of others’’.

The judge added that in deciding a hospital order was appropriate, she had taken into consideration that, before being transferred to a psychiatric unit, Kazimierowski had set fire to his prison cell, which she said was linked to his mental health issues.