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Independent review published after mental health patient went on to commit murder

An independent review will be published into decisions made by the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board after a mental health patient went on to commit murder after being released from one of its hospitals. Drug addict Deyan Deyanov killed Jennifer Mills-Westley from Norwich in 2011 at a resort in Tenerife.

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Review to be published after mental health patient went on to commit murder

Deyan Deyanov was released from one of the hospitals before the murder in Tenerife.

An independent review will be published later into decisions made by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, after a mental health patient released from one of its hospitals, went on to commit murder.

Deyan Deyanov, who had paranoid schizophrenia, attacked 60-year-old Jennifer Mills-Westley while she was shopping in the resort of Los Cristianos in the Canary Islands in 2011.

Grandmother Jennifer Mills-Westley was killed on the resort in 2011.

The 30-year-old had been admitted to the psychiatric unit at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan in 2010, but was released in October that year.

He was sentenced to 20 years in a secure psychiatric unit, after being convicted of murder by a jury.

The independent report was commissioned by the Welsh Government after Ms Mills-Westley's two daughters pressed for an inquiry.

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