A 22-year-old man planned to torture and kill people living in a Berkshire pub - and dug graves in woodland behind his home as part of his scheme.

Jacob Power was referred to mental health services by his GP after having increasing thoughts of wanting to torture and murder people.

He told health professionals he wanted to dispose of his victim's bodies in graves and he wanted to be a serial killer. But he said that these were just thoughts, they had never progressed to any plan to carry any of them out.

However he also made detailed plans matching his sinister thoughts, which he called a ‘kill list’.

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These included a plan to break into the The White Hart pub in the village of Hamstea

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