‘Vampire’ who dumped dead animals outside churches is detained indefinitely

Benjamin Lewis, 48, killed deer and stolen lambs then dumped their bodies at four churches around Hampshire (Pictures: PA) A self-described vampire who left dead animals on display outside churches was caught when police staked out places of worship on full moon nights. Benjamin Lewis, 48, killed deer and stolen lambs then dumped their bodies at four churches around Hampshire between February and August last year. He arranged the corpses in macabre displays, with a deer’s head found with an inverted cross at one church and a lamb placed on a light fixture below a statue of Mary at another. Lewis, who drank blood and once gave his name in court as ‘Count Dracula’, also ‘left his signature’ by placing a tarot card on a dead deer’s head at a church at Easter. He was given an indefinite hospit