The trial of an Israeli man suspected of killing a British tourist and wounding his girlfriend was adjourned for a month pending the outcome of a psychiatric examination of the accused. Daniel Okev admitted to picking up the couple when they were hitchhiking outside the southern Israeli town of Eilat in August. He said he did not remember shooting them.
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