A 20-YEAR-OLD man who suffers from a mental disorder has admitted stabbing a taxi driver several times outside a train station.

Samuel Herrera ran at the driver outside Chalfont and Latimer tube station on March 28 and stabbed him in the stomach, Aylesbury Crown Court heard yesterday.

The driver, Mr Mohammed, tried to get away but fell to the ground before Herrera held him down and stabbed him repeatedly, the court heard.

Someone then came out of the station and screamed before the attack ended, the court heard.

Mr Mohammed had seven wounds, with one cut to his throat. He was on a drip in hospital for four or five days and could not work for a period, the court heard.

He was said to be “very fearful that a complete stranger had come to attack him”.

Herrera, of Sandy Croft Road, Little Chalfont, has no previous convictions. He pleaded guilty to wounding with intent after he was identified in an ID parade and blood was found on his jeans.

Judge Christopher Tyrer told him: “The crown rightly in my judgement didn't proceed to trial on an attempted murder charge.

“This is a very grave matter... you decided in your own mind and deliberately chose a potentially lethal weapon and to go out and stab someone.

After seeing the evidence of two doctors he said he was satisfied that Herrera suffers from Asperger's syndrome and said a hospital order may be appropriate.

He made an order under Section 38 of the Mental Health Act and sent Herrera to Littlemore Hospital in Oxford for a 12 week period of medical assessment.