Primary Menu

Skip to content
Menu
hundredfamilies.org
  • Home
  • About
    • Why Did You Kill My Dad?
  • The Problem
    • Violence and Mental Illness
    • Myths and Realities
      • Lightning
      • Victims not Perpetrators
      • Stigma
      • The Scientific Evidence
    • Why Does it Keep Happening
  • The Victims
    • East England
    • East Midlands
    • London
    • North East England
    • North West England
    • Northern Ireland & Islands
    • Scotland
    • South Central England
    • South East Coast
    • South West England
    • Wales
    • West Midlands
    • Yorkshire & Humberside
  • Help For Families
    • Criminal Investigations
      • Police Family Liaison Officers
      • Coroners Courts
      • Court Cases
    • Health Service Investigations
      • Who Does What?
      • Different Types of Investigation
      • What is a Homicide Inquiry?
      • When Should They Start?
      • How Can Families be Involved?
      • The Problem of Patient Confidentiality
      • The Problem of Anonymity
      • Learning Lessons
      • Are Mental Health Services Accountable?
      • Inquiries in Your Area
    • The Media
    • Suicide After Homicide
    • Other Families Stories
      • Dolores Altaras and Peter Sinclair
      • Jim & Judy Cargill
      • Sue Mileson
      • Daniel Gonzales
    • Taking Legal Action – An Overview
    • Case Studies – Introduction
      • Case Study: Leon Hutchinson
      • Case Study: NHS North West
      • Case Study: Bristol & Sunderland
    • Further Help & Information
  • How we make a difference
    • For Families
    • For Professionals
    • Press Coverage
  • Contact
    • Trustees
Header Toggle

Information, analysis and support for families affected by mental health homicides in Britain

Home » Archive for  Cases

Category: Cases

Child victims of mental health related homicides

Posted on6th December 202031st December 2020AuthorJulian1 Comment

Of the 1750 mental health related homicides we have documented across the UK – more than 250 of the victims were children. This is a likely underestimate of the total. We must learn effectively from these tragedies. There are far Read More …

CategoriesCases

Lightning strikes

Posted on17th July 201520th July 2015AuthorJulian1 Comment

  After the terrible case of Nicholas Salvador who was found to be insane when he beheaded north London grandmother, Palmira Silva, the Daily Mail columnist and Doctor, Max Pemberton wrote an article pleading that everyone with a mental illness Read More …

CategoriesCases, Inaccurate reporting, London, NHS

Leslie Gadsby

Posted on16th December 201418th December 2014AuthorJulianLeave a comment

In February 2004, on the day he was due to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital, mentally ill Leslie Gadsby killed his father Arthur with a hammer. Less then two years later, in December 2006, he was conditionally discharged from Read More …

CategoriesCases, NHS Trust, West Midlands


2090

Mental health related homicides documented in the UK
852
Official investigation reports available to download

Fundraise for us! Or just Click the Purple Just Giving Link above to Donate now
Rachel Loughlin raised £2800 for
Hundred Families when she ran the 2016
Great North Run which represented an astonishing 560% of her original target.

Raise money for us for free!
Register with easyfundraisng and your online purchases with participating retailers will earn money from their marketing budget, not your pocket. And even better, you will not pay more
for your purchases!

Recent Posts

  • When do mental health related homicides occur?
  • Study finds high numbers of killings are mental health related
  • Hundred families response to Victims’ Law consultation
  • Maureen (Mo) Lound
  • Child victims of mental health related homicides

Now Available to Download

Hundred Families Information Brochure

Follow us on Twitter

My Tweets

Donate using Paypal



Recent Posts

  • When do mental health related homicides occur?
  • Study finds high numbers of killings are mental health related
  • Hundred families response to Victims’ Law consultation
  • Maureen (Mo) Lound
  • Child victims of mental health related homicides

Top Posts & Pages

  • Wales
  • West Midlands
  • Daniel Gonzales
  • Case Study: Leon Hutchinson
  • London
  • North East England
  • Scotland
  • Are Mental Health Services Accountable?
  • South East Coast
  • The Victims
Hundred Families is a commissioned service of Victim Support and gratefully acknowledges their assistance.

Victim Support Logo
Registered Charity Number 1161287
Copyright © 2023 . All Rights Reserved.
Full Frame by Catch Themes
Scroll Up
  • Home
  • About
    • Why Did You Kill My Dad?
  • The Problem
    • Violence and Mental Illness
    • Myths and Realities
      • Lightning
      • Victims not Perpetrators
      • Stigma
      • The Scientific Evidence
    • Why Does it Keep Happening
  • The Victims
    • East England
    • East Midlands
    • London
    • North East England
    • North West England
    • Northern Ireland & Islands
    • Scotland
    • South Central England
    • South East Coast
    • South West England
    • Wales
    • West Midlands
    • Yorkshire & Humberside
  • Help For Families
    • Criminal Investigations
      • Police Family Liaison Officers
      • Coroners Courts
      • Court Cases
    • Health Service Investigations
      • Who Does What?
      • Different Types of Investigation
      • What is a Homicide Inquiry?
      • When Should They Start?
      • How Can Families be Involved?
      • The Problem of Patient Confidentiality
      • The Problem of Anonymity
      • Learning Lessons
      • Are Mental Health Services Accountable?
      • Inquiries in Your Area
    • The Media
    • Suicide After Homicide
    • Other Families Stories
      • Dolores Altaras and Peter Sinclair
      • Jim & Judy Cargill
      • Sue Mileson
      • Daniel Gonzales
    • Taking Legal Action – An Overview
    • Case Studies – Introduction
      • Case Study: Leon Hutchinson
      • Case Study: NHS North West
      • Case Study: Bristol & Sunderland
    • Further Help & Information
  • How we make a difference
    • For Families
    • For Professionals
    • Press Coverage
  • Contact
    • Trustees