Knifeman arrested outside Parliament detained under Mental Health Act

A man arrested with a knife yards from the Houses of Parliament has been detained under the Mental Health Act.

Eniola Mustafa Aminu, 27, was held outside the Carriage Gates entrance, near where Pc Keith Palmer was stabbed to death in the Westminster terror attack earlier this year.

Aminu was carrying a nine-inch kitchen knife and struggled with officers on Friday June 16, just months after Khalid Masood ploughed into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and crashed into Parliament’s perimeter fence on March 22.

Aminu, from Greenwich, was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday to a hospital detention order under Section 37 of the Mental Health Act 1983.

He previously pleaded guilty to possession of an offensive weapon.

Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith said: "Every psychiatrist who has seen you since you committed this offence agrees that you were mentally unwell at the time you committed it and you are still mentally unwell.

"Your mental illness began to show itself last year and resulted in your detention under the Mental Health Act of three to four months this year."

He added: "The court is satisfied that you are suffering from a mental disorder of a nature or degree which makes it appropriate for you to be detained in a hospital for medical treatment.

"I make an order under the Mental Health Act 1983 Section 37 for your detention until you are better, then you can gradually be released back into the community."