Woman who claimed to be Princess Diana's secret daughter who was sent to rid the world of evil killed her friend and his cat, court hears
Habiba Naveed, 35, also said she was 'Jesus' and had been 'sent to eliminate evil from the world' after battering her 72-year-old landlord to death and stabbing his pet cat in the neck.
Naveed previously denied the murder of solicitor Christopher Brown, but pleaded guilty to his manslaughter.
She also admitted causing unnecessary suffering to his cat Snow by stabbing him in the neck on or before August 15 last year.
At a hearing at the Old Bailey on Thursday, Judge Sarah Munro KC imposed a hospital order under Section 37 of the Mental Health Act and a restriction order under Section 41 - meaning Naveed can be detained indefinitely.
At the time of the offence, Naveed, who has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was 'psychotic' - while her mental health had 'deteriorated' in the days preceding the attack, the court heard.
Prosecutor Kerry Broome told the court Naveed believed she had connections to the royal family and was Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed's daughter.
After the attack, Naveed told her brother 'she was Jesus and had been sent to eliminate evil from the world', and later said to police 'the devil attacked me last night and I won,' Ms Broome said.
The Metropolitan Police launched an investigation after Mr Brown's body was discovered under a dressing gown in the living room of the home he shared with Naveed in Polsted Road, Lewisham, south-east London.
The house cat, Snow, was also found dead having been stabbed in the neck.
Ms Broome said of a previous account of the attack given by the defendant: 'She believed she had seen the deceased kill his mother and that the deceased was evil.'
'She heard a voice telling her to kill him three times,' she said, adding that Naveed hit Mr Brown with a pan and then strangled him.
'She believed the evil spirit had jumped out of the deceased and into the cat.'
'She got a knife and she cut the cat's neck,' Mr Broome added.
A post-mortem examination found that Mr Brown, who was a lawyer, died from blunt force trauma.
In a tearful statement, a colleague from Mr Brown's law firm told the hearing that the victim would have helped anyone if he could, adding that Naveed had taken away any 'future memories'.
She said: 'He wasn't just a 72-year-old-man tragically killed by his housemate, he was a solicitor, a boss, a partner, a kind man.'
In a statement read out by Ms Broome, Mr Brown's cousin described him as a 'kind and caring person' who would go out of his way to help his family and his clients.
Naveed attended the hearing via video-link and only spoke to confirm her identity.
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