Forget the Killers' Rights. What About Protection for the Innocent Public?
Daily Mail › December 04, 2006
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FOR YEARS, the families of people suffering from dangerous mental illness have begged and pleaded with doctors to do something to stop their sick relatives from killing someone, not least a member of their own family.
But for years, doctors and other care professionals have sat on their hands or looked the other way. Now the terrible outcome has once again become shockingly apparent.See the full content of this document
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Forget the Killers' Rights. What About Protection for the Innocent Public?
A report to be published today by the Department of Health says that over a five-year period, more than 250 people - equivalent to one every week - were killed by someone receiving what is laughably called 'care in the community', sometimes having been assessed as being at low risk only a few days previously.
Who can be surprised? Since Jonathan Zito was killed...See the full content of this document
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