Frenchman won't stand trial over stabbing British pair to death in Australia

Smail Ayad deemed mentally ill after stabbing backpackers Mia Ayliffe-Chung and Tom Jackson in north Queensland in 2016

A mentally ill Frenchman who fatally stabbed two other backpackers at a north Queensland hostel while under a delusion that people wanted to kill him won’t go to trial.

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