Section 135(1) at a Place of Safety

I recently received an enquiry about a legal question I’ve probably assumed was taken for granted, but which may be worth covering: it relates to processes at a Place of Safety where someone has been arrived there after a warrant was issued under s135(1) Mental Health Act (MHA), rather than because of police use of […]

Acute Psychiatric Beds

Another new Preventing Future Deaths report, after the tragic death of Stephen Richardson in Liverpool relates to a shortage of acute psychiatric beds. Stephen was a 47-year old man at the time of his death and had suffered with (treatment resistant) schizophrenia since he was 18-years old. Leading up to the 24th May 2019, he […]

Heather Findlay

There are several preventing future death reports of interest to us in a recently published batch on the Chief Coroner’s website, so there will be a few posts in coming weeks to cover them. The first relates to the sad death of Heather Findlay in London in 2020: her inquest concluded earlier this month (June […]