Monday 10 November 2008

When lunatics run free!

I would like to take this opportunity to bring to your attention something which I consider to be a great danger to the British public. Something that I also consider to be swept under the carpet, and only raises it's ugly head when there is a major tragedy which obviously is hard to conceal.

I am talking in this instance about the Authorities charged with protecting us from the mentally ill.

I am going to show three cases in point, which I believe sum up everything that is wrong. Also, let us be in no doubt that these well publicised cases are but the tip of the iceberg.

The first case involves an innocent family man who was unloading his car as he waited for his two sons to return from school, when what is described as a crazed knife maniac calmly walked up to him and stabbed him in the chest.

Notice two things here, this maniac had 'a history of mental illness', ‘an abnormality of the mind which in the opinion of doctors would have impaired his responsibility for the act’. And yet someone made the informed and expert decision to release this man amongst the general public.

Why isn't that person being held to account?

The second case also involves an innocent family man who once again was getting on with family life when tragedy struck. In fact he was asleep in bed with his two year old son. This poor man was literally butchered in front of his two children, receiving 82 stab wounds in the process, turning what should have been a family home into a blood bath.

And once again the psychopath responsible had previous mental history, in fact he had actually been sectioned after being diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. He also had a history of not taking his medication, which tests later proved to be the case on the day of the frenzied attack.

The victims father had this to say: "Somebody let him out of hospital and seven weeks later he was free to walk the streets." And he is quite correct, someone did. Yet no mention or criticism of that 'someone', yet again heads never roll, nobody held to account over this man's horrific murder.

The third case involves another innocent, this time it is a fourteen year old schoolgirl who pays dearly for other peoples failings. She had a knife held to her throat, and was brutally raped twice in bushes. In this case her attacker suffers from autistic spectrum disorder and schizophrenia, and had been remanded for six years to the medium-security St Andrew's Hospital in Northampton. His crime you may ask? Well he repeatedly stabbed his six-month-old brother in the head then cut off his hand at his former family home in Bristol in 2000.

He had absconded three times, but was later transferred to the low-security Hayes Hospital at Pilning near Bristol in January 2007. So having absconded three times from a 'medium' secure hospital, someone had the brainwave to transfer him to a 'low' security hospital. Madness? You bet!

Anyway during his stay at his new hospital we hear that his mental health started to deteriorate, and staff observed he had a large collection of DVDs with porn films and horror movies. So what do the staff do next? Well they fuel his interest in horror films by taking him to see them at a local cinema.

Here is what the Recorder of Cardiff Judge Nicholas Cooke QC, told him:

'I am satisfied you are exceptionally dangerous and very profoundly mentally ill.

'You suffer from autistic spectrum disorder and schizophrenia and that, combined with an inability to understand the effect of your actions makes you, not only exceptionally dangerous but difficult to treat.

'What you did to your little brother can only be described as an horrific killing.
'I've little doubt that the judge who sentenced you would be horrified that you were given unrestricted to horror films and pornography.

'How on earth could it be thought appropriate that someone who has murdered his brother be allowed to have access to horror films?

'How can it be that the alarm was not raised immediately after someone who has been identified as such a danger was allowed to escape?"

'This is not the first time this has happened - I hope by now the Home Office should consider such things. This needs to be investigated.'

And yet amazingly this psychopath's status was on the verge of being downgraded at the time of his escape.And staff were not allowed to be alone with Him because he was considered to be such a threat.

Although an enquiry in this case is still on going, I very much doubt if anyone will be held to account, and consequently things will proceed as normal and more innocent people will die or suffer.

The lunatics really have taken over the asylum. And they are getting away with it!

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