A schizophrenic has been sentenced to an indefinite period in a mental hospital after stabbing his neighbour and trying to hit him with a concrete block.Supreme Court heard that the “very dangerous” Shiloh Payne launched the unprovoked attack on Randy Thompson after failing to take his medication and developing hallucinations and delusions.Prosecutor Nicole Smith explained that Mr Thompson, 59, was living with Payne at Payne’s mother’s residence in Scott’s Hill Road, Sandys.Around 12.15pm on March 26, Mr Thompson was riding his pedal cycle along that road when Payne, 27, went towards him armed with a screwdriver. Mr Thompson jumped off his bike and ran up a side street, but Payne caught up with him in a yard on nearby Pleasantville Lane and stabbed him at least five times with the screwdriver.As he stabbed him, he accused Mr Thompson of “stealing his paint,” causing the victim to shout, “stop, I didn’t steal your paint.”A neighbour, Merwyn Bean, heard the shouts and ran outside his house. He saw Payne holding the victim down on the ground and jabbing him in the back with the screwdriver.According to the prosecutor, Mr Bean shouted at Payne to stop, but Payne just kicked Mr Thompson in the ribs before grabbing a concrete block and trying to strike the victim with it.Mr Bean intervened, and the block did not hit Mr Thompson.Payne waved the screwdriver at Mr Thompson and shouted at him before running off as the police arrived.Officers sprayed him with incapacitant spray and he dropped the screwdriver before running off.Mr Thompson was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital where he was treated for multiple stab wounds to the head and chest and a collapsed lung.Meanwhile, a manhunt was launched for Payne, who was found the next day hiding in the attic of his mother’s nearby home. He was arrested, and taken to the Mid Atlantic Wellness Institute [MAWI] mental hospital. He was later charged with causing grievous bodily harm and possessing a sharp pointed article, and pleaded guilty last September.Yesterday, Crown counsel Nicole Smith and defence lawyer Richard Horseman agreed that Payne should be treated in MAWI rather than sent to prison. They quoted reports from two psychiatrists who said Payne was suffering a relapse of his long-standing schizophrenia because he had stopped taking his medication.The lack of medication caused Payne to suffer paranoid delusions and hallucinations. When he was examined after his arrest, he told doctors he was “not comfortable with coloured-eyed people” and believed that “people who don’t have brown eyes are scary”.He exhibited strange behaviour including staring and irritability and talked about “Elvis Presley, The Rules of Engagement, the Ark of the Covenant, the Bible and a belief that people were trying to kill him”, according to Ms Smith.Dr Grant Farquhar, consultant psychiatrist at MAWI, said Payne had been admitted there 11 times in the six years prior to the crime.His last “section 20”, which is a leave of absence from MAWI under the Mental Health Act, expired prior to the stabbing and he had not received any antipsychotic medication for three months.Mr Horseman suggested an “indefinite care order” be issued by the judge under the Mental Health Act.He said of Payne: “I understand from his mother that he gets to a point where he hasn’t been able to be kept under control, where they can’t force him to take the medication and he thinks he doesn’t need it.”Mr Horseman said if the judge meted out an indefinite care order: “They (MAWI) can recall him at any time; they can make sure he’s going to get his medication from here on out.”Payne himself told the court: “I want to say I’m sorry to Randy Thompson and his family for what I have done.”Sentencing Payne to the suggested order, Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves said: “This court finds and accepts this defendant is indeed suffering from a mental illness, in particular schizophrenia.“Under the circumstances of this case, the court finds and accepts that this defendant is indeed a very dangerous person when it comes to the security of members of the community.“I think there’s a real likelihood that he’s likely to commit similar offences of this sort unless he’s taken under the care of a mental institution and receives regular treatment.”