A paranoid restaurant worker who killed a colleague because he thought he was being poisoned has been detained at the State Hospital in Carstairs.
Abdul Foyez stabbed Mohammed Salim Uddin, 44, at the Gulshan Tandoori in Inverkeithing, Fife, in September 2021.
He was acquitted of murder and given an interim compulsion order after the Crown accepted he was suffering from diminished mental responsibility.
A psychiatrist said Foyez had limited insight into his mental illness.
Dr Sheila Howitt said the homicide of Mr Uddin was in response to paranoid delusions. He imagined that he was being persecuted by the mafia and that his friend was trying to kill him by poisoning him.
She said he believed he was being persecuted by the Bangladeshi community, of which he was part, and had moved from London to Scotland two weeks before the murder because he thought it would be a safer place.
In the absence of appropriate treatment - specifically anti-psychotic medication, she said - he would pose a risk to others.
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