Matthew Caseby

It was made known this week that a police inspector will face misconduct proceedings over their initial handling of a missing person’s investigation in 2020 where a detained patient absconded from a private mental health unit in Birmingham. Matthew Caseby had been admitted to the Priory Hospital in Edgbaston after being sectioned in Oxford. The […]

AP v Oxford Healthcare

This post is about so-called “swing beds”, a term used by the Care Quality Commission in one of its annual reports for the practice of using the space in a “section 136 suite” or Place of Safety (PoS) as a location in which to admit or hold a patient who requires urgent admission, when there […]

Nottingham Update No 3

A report by the Independent Office for Police Conduct in to the Leicestershire Police handling of allegations against Valdo Calocane would appear to have been leaked. The IOPC were investigating three of the force’s officers over the report Mr Calocane assaulted two of his workmates in May 2023, only weeks before the deadly and life-altering […]