A violently disturbed Bradford teenager, who attempted to murder seven people in Keighley by stabbing them in their hearts, has been ordered to be detained indefinitely at a high-security hospital.

Raheem Nawaz, who later bragged that he drank blood, was high on a cocktail of drink and drugs when he wreaked carnage in the town centre.

He aimed his ornamental knife at the hearts of his victims – almost killing two of them. Captured with the blood-spattered weapon by brave members of the public, Nawaz boasted to police about what he had done, Bradford Crown Court was told yesterday.

“I just wanted to kill someone. I hope they are dead. I love blood. I drink blood. Bro, tell me someone died,” he said to officers.

The court was told Nawaz had been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic who hears voices and thinks they are laughing at him.

Recorder of Bradford, Judge James Stewart QC, sent him without time limit to Rampton high security hospital.

The judge said the public would be relieved that Nawaz, now 20, might never be at large again.

Nawaz, who wore a white shirt and tie, stood in the secure dock handcuffed to a burly prison officer and ringed by three others.

He had pleaded guilty in December to attempting to murder seven people in August last year.

Prosecutor Richard Wright said Nawaz, of Wilmer Drive, Heaton, knew his first victim, Mohammed Nazam. He plunged a knife into his chest after shaking hands with him in Victoria Road, Keighley, at 9.45pm on August 20.

Mr Nazam was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries. He was resuscitated and treated in the high dependency unit.

Nazam, who had downed half a litre of vodka and taken cannabis and amphetamine, then drank up to nine double Jack Daniels whiskies, the court heard.

Late that evening, he was at the bar in The Livery Rooms on North Street. Witnesses recalled that he was edgy, agitated and rambling.

By midnight, Nawaz was outside the pub, drunk and unsteady on his feet, annoying a group of women waiting for a taxi.

He then stabbed Sarah Wade repeatedly in the stomach. Her friend, Carol Owlett, was knifed in the arm when she hit him with her handbag.

Nawaz next stabbed Fiona Haughey three times, in the abdomen and chest.

Mr Wright said Nawaz was “frenzied and slashing out with the knife at anyone he could.”

He cut Fiona Moorhouse in the neck and she fainted.

Nawaz then put his arm round James French and “buried the knife in his abdomen”.

Majid Hussain was stabbed in the shoulder and slashed in the neck when he led a group who overpowered Nawaz and snatched the knife.

Miss Wade received emergency first aid from Matthew Dykes and William Smith. The judge said they probably saved her life.

She was operated on at Airedale Hospital for four wounds to the abdomen and chest wall and kept in intensive care. Surgeons said she was fortunate to survive.

Mr French was seriously wounded in the back and chest.

Dr Christopher Clarke, consultant psychiatrist at Rampton Hospital, said Nawaz would pose a serious risk if he was at large.

John Ryder QC, Nawaz’s barrister, said the “horrifying incident” was caused by serious mental illness exacerbated by drink and drugs. Nawaz’s mother and sister also suffered from schizophrenia and his client remained “seriously disturbed”.

He had tried to kill himself and attack other inmates when being treated, he disclosed.

Judge Stewart told Nawaz: “You attempted to murder no fewer than seven innocent citizens.”

The judge commended Majid Hussain, Matthew Dykes, William Smith and Keira Munday, who works at The Livery Rooms, from their brave actions that night.

After the case, a spokesman for NHS Bradford and Airedale and Bradford District Care Trust said: “An internal investigation into the circumstances surrounding this incident is on-going and at this stage it would be inappropriate to comment further.”