Capacity to Die

This tweet from a @TiredSgt has provoked quite a bit of discussion today (and just for the sake of inter-agency love and balance there was another, unrelated thread in which a psychiatrist said the police “couldn’t recognise capacity if it slapped them in the face with a wet fish”) — So first of all, I’m […]

Questions and Technicalities

An east London coroner issued a preventing future deaths report this week, following a suicide in the capital after a man was discharged from a hospital to which he had been ‘sectioned’ under the Mental Health Act. What interested me for a number of reasons, was what was NOT flagged as a ‘matter of concern’ […]

The Right to Life

As far as I can tell, the tragic death of 60yr old Mr Michael Thompson in March 2016 was not widely covered by the media. An inquest in Southwark in 2017 returned a verdict that Mr Thompson had died an accidental death after he set fire to his own property whilst in mental health crisis […]