A hostage runs towards a police officer outside Lindt cafe, where other hostages are being held, in Martin Place in central Sydney in this December 15, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Jason Reed
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A self-styled sheikh who staged a siege at an Australian cafe last year suffered "grandiose delusions" and was once kicked out of a motorcycle gang because he was deemed so weird, an inquest into the deaths of three people heard on Monday.
Police stormed the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in central Sydney in the early hours of Dec. 16 after Iranian-born gunman Man Haron Monis shot and killed 34-year-old cafe manager Tori Johnson with a sawn-off shotgun following a 17-hour standoff.
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