| Date |
Victim |
Location |
Event |
Comment |
download |
| Nov-94 |
Mary Povey |
West Kent |
MH patient fatally and repeatedly stabs mother |
Ind Inq 1996 Previously threatened violence with knives. |
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| Jan-96 |
Marion Addy |
Ashington, W Sussex |
Mentally ill woman repeatedly and fatally bludgeons woman with club hammer |
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| Jul-96 |
Lin Russell |
Kent |
Man with PD & psychosis killed strangers with a hammer |
Ind Inq 2006, Had asked for help before incident. |
2.4Mb |
| Jul-96 |
Megan Russell |
Kent |
Man with PD & psychosis killed strangers with a hammer |
Ind Inq 2006, Had asked for help before incident. |
| Jan-98 |
Clare Letchford |
Hastings, Kent |
Psychiatric patient strangled woman and set her alight |
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| Jan-98 |
Beryl O'Connor |
Hastings, Kent |
Psychiatric patient strangled woman and set her alight |
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| Sep-98 |
Remy Surage (Mr S) |
Orpington, Kent |
MH homicide – stabbed and killed |
Ind Inq 2004. Had been sectioned for previous violence |
97kb |
| Jun-99 |
Robert Kavanagh |
Hove, Sussex |
Depressed Psychotic woman fatally stabs boyfriend |
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| Oct-99 |
Avril Hollens |
Tonbridge, Kent |
MH patient fatally stabs girlfriend |
Ind Inq 2003 |
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| Dec-99 |
Taher Rahman |
Hove, Sussex |
Mentally ill man beheads mother |
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| Feb-00 |
Simon Widger |
Eastbourne, Sussex |
Psychotic glued partners eyes, ears and lips and fatally and repeatedly stabbed him |
Ind Inq, 2003 |
622kb |
| Mar-00 |
Mrs PG |
Kent |
MH patient killed woman |
Inquiry hushed up |
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| Apr-00 |
Sarah Lawson |
Worthing |
Depressive strangled mentally ill daughter |
Ind Inq 2004 |
103kb |
| Jun-01 |
Jamie McCarville (4) |
Dover |
Mentally ill woman fatally shoots son and tries to shoot herself |
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| Jun-01 |
Mr S |
Woking |
MH patient fatally and repeatedly stabbed friend |
Ind Inq 2003 |
649kb |
| Jun-01 |
Mark Blackston |
Northfleet, Kent |
MH patient fatally stabbed victim |
Ind Inq 2005. Previous violence, had warned she would kill s.o |
346kb |
| Jul-01 |
Joseph Day |
Folkestone |
Schizophrenic (triggered or exacerbated by drug abuse) fatally stabbed another |
Ind Inq 2004 found failures and errors. No Risk Ass. Team work poor |
357kb |
| Aug-01 |
Melanie Welch (Ms B) |
Redhill, Surrey |
depressive MH patient strangled his partner |
Ind Inq 2005 |
210kb |
| Sep-01 |
Gilbert McCallum |
Dover |
Man with MH problems killed man |
Ind Inq 2005 |
111kb |
| Feb-02 |
Natalie Scott |
Bognor Regis, Sussex |
Paranoid schizophrenic with delusions fatally and repeatedly stabs girlfriend |
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| Jun-02 |
Ms L - girlfriend |
Hastings, East Sussex |
Long term MH patient killed girlfriend |
Ind Inq 2005. Previous violence |
346kb |
| Dec-02 |
Joan Smythe |
Rainham (but SE Coast patient) |
MH patient sexually assaulted and murdered elderly stranger |
Ind Inq 2006 Family had been trying to get him help |
301kb |
| Mar 03 (Publ) |
not known |
East Kent |
MH homicide of landlady |
Ind Inq 2003 |
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| Mar-03 |
Rae Torbet
(Ms E) |
Hastings, Sussex |
MH patient fatally and repeatedly stabbed ex girlfriend |
Ind Inq 2005 |
147kb |
| Jul-03 |
Richard Cromarty |
Maidstone |
MH patient fatally stabs neighbour 20 times |
Indep Inq |
1.6Mb |
| Aug-03 |
Mr G |
South East/East sussex |
MH patient repeatedly knifes partner |
Ind Inq 2006 - HAD PREVIOUSLY COMMITTED TWO HOMICIDES. (Coid) |
269kb |
| Jan-04 |
James Ford |
Sunbury |
MH patient fatally attacked man with brick |
Ind Inq 2007, usual problems team work, poor notes |
302kb |
| Sep-04 |
Marie Harding (73) |
Worthing |
Psychotic fatally stabs strangers (& 3 in London) |
Ind Inq 2009 Mother had been asking for MH help for him for months |
1.4Mb |
| Nov-04 |
Derek Saxby |
Folkestone |
MH homicide with knife - sectioned |
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| Dec-04 |
Angela Titley |
Private Psych hospital, Redhill, Surrey |
Psychotic MH patient fatally and repeatedly stabbed lover with Swiss Army Knife |
Ind Inq 2009. May have missed meds |
2.7Mb |
| Apr-05 |
Jackie Marshall |
Chichester Sussex |
Mentally Ill man kills manager in frenzied attack |
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| Jun-05 |
Chris Stones |
Worthing |
Paranoid Schizophrenic stabs father of two |
Long MH history |
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| Nov-05 |
Marion Edgington |
Forest Row, E Grinsted |
Schizophrenic fatally and repeatedly stabs mother |
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| Mar-06 |
John McKenna |
Egham, Surrey |
Paranoid Schizophrenic fatally stabs friend days after release from Psych unit (Chertsey) |
MH history |
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| Jan-07 |
Claire Edrich |
Lowland |
Mentally ill man fatally shoots wife |
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| May-07 |
Catherine Genestin |
Brighton |
Mentally ill man bludgeons wife and hides her body around house |
MH history, previous suicide attempt |
68kb |
| Aug-07 |
Daniel Quelch |
Maidenhead, Berks |
Paranoid Schizophrenic breaks into house and fatally and repeatedly stab stranger in front of his children |
Long MH history – sectioned 2001 – not taking meds |
406kb |
| Dec-07 |
Sue Goswell |
West Chiltington, Sussex |
Mentally ill man fatally stabbed wife then kills himself, a week after leaving psychiatric hospital. Many previous warnings |
MH history - released from Psych hospital despite warnings from daughter |
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| Dec-07 |
Valerie Twyman |
Ramsgate, Kent |
Psychotic man fatally stabs grandmother |
MH history |
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| May-08 |
Drusilla Paisley |
Burgess Hill |
Mentally ill man batters and fatally stabs wife then kills himself |
had recently been seen by psychiatrist |
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| May-08 |
Shanjayan Navaneethan (5) |
Carshalton |
Mentally ill mother fatally stabs children |
sectioned |
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| May-08 |
Sharani Navaneethan (4) |
Carshalton |
Mentally ill mother fatally stabs children |
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| Dec-08 |
James Taylor |
Dartford, Kent |
Mentally ill woman kills her son by drowning |
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| Nov-09 |
Dominic Kelly |
Guildford |
Schizophrenic batters friend and pushes him into river where he drowns |
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| Feb-10 |
Gordon Stalker |
Brighton |
Paranoid schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally stabs neighbour believing him to be a witch stealing his soul |
History of increasingly erratic and threatening behaviour |
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| Nov-10 |
Shehlah Baig |
Crawley |
Unmedicated Paranoid Schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally stabs wife |
Long MH history - Not taking medication |
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