This year marks 25 years since Jonathan Zito was killed in London by mentally ill Christopher Clunis. The subsequent inquiry into the case was influential and marked the start of the current system of independent investigations of homicides by patients with mental Read More …
Thanks very much to everyone who supported our annual Christmas raffle and especially to Len Hodkin for organizing it so successfully. The results are now in and we are very pleased to announce the winners: First prize of £100 Paige Read More …
The Care Quality Commission’s deaths review out today makes for shocking, depressing, and, unfortunately for many families bereaved by mental health homicides, all too familiar reading. For our families’ experience exactly mirrors many of the findings of the CQC review. Read More …
Some victims of homicides by people with serious mental illness do not meet the inclusion criteria for mental health homicide statistics Following today’s article in the Mail on Sunday it’s probably worth reiterating what is and isn’t included in the Read More …
The Department of Health is concerned that health service workers can suffer discrimination and bullying by NHS managers if they respond openly and frankly to investigations into serious incidents (like patient homicides). So they are consulting about creating a ‘Safe Read More …
How do you count victims of mental health homicides? In 2013, the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by people with Mental Illness (NCISH) for the first time published figures about the number of victims of mental health homicides Read More …
Homicides by psychiatric patients in Sussex have been a concern of ours for some time – ever since we were in touch with the Quelch family, after the horrific murder of their son Daniel, by a Sussex patient in August Read More …
Today the Guardian Newspaper published a report pleading for sympathy for psychiatrists who release mentally ill people who threaten to kill. What’s shocking to me, apart from the relentless self-pity, is that the psychiatrist author shows no concern Read More …
Today, Timchang Nandap will be sentenced at the Old Bailey for the unprovoked killing of Dr Jeroen Ensink, a man he had never met or spoken to before. We have been supporting the family and know there are many serious, Read More …
Tom Easton was 22 years old when he was killed in London by a complete stranger, a man with a history of paranoid schizophrenia and drug abuse, who had stopped taking his anti-psychotic medication. Tom’s mum, Dolores Altaras, was one Read More …