Cocaine carer's knife rampage

TRAGIC 'PARANOID' MAN DIED OF HEART ATTACK, INQUEST HEARS

- JOHN SCHEERHOUT

A 'PARANOID' carer high on cocaine died of heart failure after he ran into a shop with a knife believing he was being chased - and had to be 'appropriately and lawfully restrained by terrified staff in front of shocked customers, a jury inquest has concluded.

Muhammed Mahrie Kinteh, a married man known as Pa Kinteh, 45, died hours after he ran into a shop in Bolton armed with two knives and struggled against two shopkeepers who restrained him.

Mr Kinteh, from Kearsley in Bolton, ran from a friend's home after taking two knives from the kitchen in an 'agitated paranoid' manner and went into a convenience store where he told staff he needed help as he was 'being chased by people who wanted to kill him, an inquest into his death has found. His behaviour that afternoon was said to be 'out of character!

One of the shopkeepers dialled 999, while a second shopkeeper could see nobody was pursuing Mr Kinteh when he looked outside the shop on St James Street in New Bury. The two shopkeepers 'reassured' him and urged him 'to calm down, the court heard.