NHS trust investigating 10 killings involving patients
Sussex NHS Partnership Trust has announced an independent review into ten killings involving people who used the services of the trust.
It comes after the the trust admitted 'serious failings' over the killing of Don Lock. The pensioner was stabbed 39 times by Matthew Daley, who suffered from chronic mental health problems.
Before the killing Daley's family had "pleaded" with clinicians to section him as his mental health declined.
The trust has announced an investigation into the following 10 killings, all involving people with mental health issues that had used the services of the trust:
Kayden Smith was committed to a secure hospital after stabbing to death Danish tattoo artist Jan Jenson in Hassocks in 2012.
Smith admitted manslaughter through diminished responsibility.
Janet Muller went missing from a mental health hospital in Hove in 2015.
The body of the German national was later found in the boot of a burnt out car. Christopher Jeffrey-Shaw was found guilty of her manslaughter.
David Sole was jailed for life for the drink and drug-fuelled murder of Jonathan Ellison in his Brighton flat in 2011.
Sole had previously been treated by the Brighton and Hove Mental Health Homeless Team.
Sean Iran was jailed for life for the murder of a 36-year-old drug user whose burnt body was found on a golf course on the outskirts of Brighton in 2010.
He had previously had contact with secondary care mental health services.
Steven Dunne suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. He stabbed a former neighbour to death in the belief he was a witch who had captured his soul.
He was detained indefinitely in a medium-secure psychiatric unit.
Roger Goswell stabbed and beat his wife Sue to death at their home in West Chiltington in 2007, then killed himself in a car crash.
He had earlier been treated for a different suicide attempt. Their family said the deaths were ‘predictable and avoidable.’
Shane Noble was handed a life sentence for the murder of a man who died after being beaten outside a convenience store in the Hydneye area of Eastbourne in 2012.
Oliver Parsons was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 16 years without parole after stabbing a man on Christmas day 2014.
Matthew Daley stabbed Don Lock 39 times after the pensioner accidentally drove into the back of his car near Worthing in 2015.
Daley was found guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Lewes Crown Court heard Daley suffered from chronic mental health problems.
Graeme Morris from Hove was detained indefinitely at the State Hospital in Scotland after killing his mother and battering his father at their Ayrshire home in 2012.