So hungry I stabbed swan

A MUSLIM stabbed a swan to death at a boating lake because he was so hungry from the Ramadan fast, a court heard.
Ravenous Shamshu Miah, 52, plunged a kitchen knife into the bird leaving it bleeding to death.
Cops arrived to find him with feathers in his beard and blood on his face.
Magistrates heard how he told officers: "I was so hungry."
Miah was yesterday in custody awaiting sentence after magistrates ordered psychiatric reports. The court in Llandudno, North Wales, was told at an earlier hearing how hungry Miah had been fasting during the month of Ramadan.
But following the religious instruction of going without food during daylight hours had affected his mental state.
Miah was seen acting suspiciously at Llandudno’s boating pool — home to a flock of swans often fed by children.
Prosecutor David Mainstone said police found the wild swan, "the property of the Queen", in a carrier bag. His solicitor Elen Parry said: "He hadn’t appreciated swans shouldn’t be killed."
"The officers told him the swan was the property of the Queen and he replied, 'I hate the Queen, I hate this country'."
Miah, of Llandudno, admitted possessing a knife and killing a wild bird. Magistrates’ chairman James Barry told him: "We need reports for your own interest."

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