Making Things Up

The discussion about Nottingham continues on social media – this is a post about the law when someone is convicted of murder, compared to when someone is convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility (DR). Before I launch in to that, however, I just want to note this morning’s announcement that Nottinghamshire Healthcare […]

Thinking Some Thoughts

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 […]

Absconding from Warrants

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 […]