Exclusive: Knife attack victim's family describe his killer as 'a time bomb waiting to go off'

Ian Dollery has been described as kind and compassionate, his widow and children say they miss him every second of ever day.

He was killed by Robert Kay, who has schizophrenia.

Mr Dollery's family say chances to diagnose his illness were missed time and time again.

Elaine Willcox reports:

Tony and Lucy also spoke to Julian Hendy whose father was stabbed by a man with a history of mental issues.

He's set up a website, Hundred Families, offering support and information:

A schizophrenic man who murdered a "wholly innocent" engineer while on a drugs binge has been jailed for life.

Jobless Robert Kay, 49, walked past the open garage of Ian Dollery's seaside home in St Annes, Lancashire, and stabbed him in front of his screaming wife, Andrea, and their 22-year-old daughter, Grace.

The attack took place on the evening of June 18 last year just hours before the Dollerys were due to go holiday and after the defendant had injected himself with amphetamines and drunk eight cans of Tennent's Super lager.

Before the murder, Kay had told friends he was "the son of Satan" and had been given "a list of things to do".

The court was told Grace Dollery used a broomstick to force Kay, armed with a large kitchen knife, out of the garage of the detached property in York Road.

Father-of-three Mr Dollery, who worked at BAE Systems all his life, suffered more than 30 stab wounds, some made with considerable force, and later died in hospital.

Kay - who had never met his victim - had admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility but a jury at Preston Crown Court convicted him of murder.

The defendant was suffering from a long-standing illness at the time of the killing but had failed to co-operate with mental health services over the years, the court heard.