You will recall last month’s sentencing in Nottingham following the killings Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates in June 2023.  A number of reviews are ongoing in to various aspects of mental health care, policing and decision making during the criminal proceedings. One aspect of this has been subject to an announcement this morning […]

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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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