ONCE clean-shaven and well-kept, this is how Andrew Bayliss disguised himself to go on the run after killing Birmingham taxi driver Mohammed Arshad.

The two pictures, taken before and after the murder, were shown to the jury in Bayliss’s trial at Worcester Crown Court.

The jurors heard Bayliss threw away his clothes and changed his appearance to avoid arrest, travelling to France, Belgium and Wales.

He was featured in a Crimewatch appeal and was arrested shortly afterwards.

In the first photograph, taken in July 2008, tattooed Bayliss has longer hair and is smooth-faced.

Read extended excerpts from the diary here

But after going on the run Bayliss was almost unrecognisable after shaving off his hair and growing a beard. His diary entries blame his paranoia for his “strange behaviour”.

He wrote: “In the first instance I ran away after a few days, drove to France, Belgium then after few days came home.

“I just could not sit at home and wait to be caught. I have such paranoia from this, it’s driving me crazy.

“Every siren I hear and I could just die on the spot.”

He added: “I have been thinking about peoples (sic) reaction again, talking to family about my life and it means nothing, all I see is their horror and discust (sic) at me.

“They was all commenting on my appearance, saying I’m in disguise, I have to laugh but it’s so not funny.”