Long-time readers of the blog will remember the two high-profile cases of Seni Lewis and Kingsley Burrell, in London (2010) and Birmingham (2011) respectively.  Both cases involved a fatal outcome after police officers were called to a mental health inpatient unit by NHS staff because of disorder and the result, after significant, disproportionate restraint in […]

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On the latest episode of Ambulance, the police were called by North West Ambulance Service to a patient who had recently walked out of Salford Emergency Department.  The lady had been in there after self-injuring and claiming to have taken an overdose and there was some suggestion she had ‘absconded’ from the ED.  She was […]

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You will be aware of the ongoing manhunt for Abdul Ezedi after the terrible alkali attack in Clapham a few weeks ago.  The Metropolitan Police announced last week their working theory that Ezedi entered the Thames near Chelsea Bridge, the inference being he is now presumed dead.  The Guardian did a piece on the work […]

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