Victim of killer Sebastian Mercante remains in hospital after his mother’s murder

Mar 10 2010 by Kevin Core, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Police launched a manhunt but in the early hours of Saturday Mercante’s body was discovered at the foot of a car park at Hanover Street in Manchester.

He had jumped from the eighth floor after leaving the message “F*** U Claire” in blood on the wall.

Soon after the discovery of his body, police said their investigation was at an end and that he was known to them.

Transactions on the internet auction site eBay show that Mercante, reportedly once a former member of the French Foreign Legion, had spent some of his final weeks amassing a deadly arsenal on the internet.

He paid £65 for a Blackhawk serrated knife from the “Sexy Weapon Co”, and also a pair of police-style riot gloves for use under body armour.

He had also bought a tool belt from a company that designed gun holsters and newspapers reported that after his death a “torture kit” of cable ties, a knife and a blunt instrument was discovered.

Coroners have not yet set any dates for the inquests.