You might want to grab a cuppa before reading this one – it’s a little longer than normal because it touches on things I’ve been working on an arguing for twenty years now. Given my interest all week in the sentencing proceedings in Nottingham, I paid close attention to media coverage and social media reaction […]

Query from the south-west after a spirited but good humoured debate between the police and an Approved Mental Health Professional following execution of a s135(1) MHA warrant.  Concern had been raised about an elderly patient with possible dementia living alone and after various failed attempts to see them by visiting their home, an AMHP had secured […]

Valdo Calocane, 32, has been sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court to a restricted hospital order – indefinite detention in hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983 having pleaded guilty to three charges of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility (DR) and three charges of attempted murder following a series of attacks in the city […]