Here’s one for you: what are the legalities around a section 47/49 MHA patient failing to return from authorised leave? – what power exists to re-detain them and would a warrant be required to enter premises in order to do so? First things first: I don’t think I’ve ever thought about or heard before of […]

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I spent February 2021 engaged as an expert witness in a police contact death inquest which was sitting in Milton Keynes – the inquest after the death of Leon Briggs in Bedfordshire in 2013.  When those proceedings concluded, His Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Bedfordshire requested a discussion with me to help formulate the Preventing Future […]

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Over a year ago, in January 2024, four bodies were discovered in a home in Costessey, Norfolk and led to a number of immediate and ongoing consequences connected to the Right Care, Right Person programme which was due to go live in that police force area a week or so after the tragedy. In summary, […]

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