An illegal immigrant who stabbed a father-of-five to death in Cricklewood days after smuggling himself into the UK was sent to a mental hospital last week.

Mark Gjoni, 34, came to Britain last March, but the mentally ill Albanian went on the rampage days later, knifing delivery driver Qamar Mirza when he stopped at a petrol station just yards from his home on the way back from work.

Mr Mirza, 50, of Exeter Road, was found lying on the forecourt of the Jet filling station in Cricklewood Broadway after Gjoni stabbed him to death with an eight-inch knife in the early hours of March 6 last year. He died soon after.

Gjoni, who was arrested by police a day later, pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility in May this year.

Appearing at the Old Bailey on Friday flanked by four prison officers, Gjoni was told he will be given a bed at the high-security Broadmoor mental hospital within the next 28 days.

The Common Serjeant of London, Peter Beaumont QC, agreed to an interim hospital order for a maximum of 12 weeks while Gjoni is assessed by doctors.

He said: "I am satisfied he is a person who has been convicted in the Crown Court of an offence punishable by imprisonment. I am further satisfied he is a person suffering from mental illness."

Gjoni will be formally sentenced under the Mental Health Act 1983 at a later hearing.