Something should be done about this, how can they possibly just let it continue.


More than 400 people have been killed by psychiatric patients released into the community over the last eight years, it has been reported.

An official report to be published on Monday will show that, on average, one person a week dies at the hands of a mentally ill patient, it is claimed.

Almost a third of the killings were carried out by people who had been judged not to be a risk to the public, it is reported, while one in six deaths have been blamed on the failure to ensure patients took their medication properly.

The report has been produced by Professor Louis Appleby, the Government's national clinical director for mental health, for the National Patient Safety Agency.

He is said to have concluded that health staff are failing to identify those patients most at risk of killing someone.

"This is really to do with how mental health staff rate a person as low or high risk. Sometimes they just become desensitised to the risks they are dealing with," he is quoted as saying.

His findings come after an inquiry into the killing of retired banker Denis Finnegan by paranoid schizophrenic John Barrett in London's Richmond Park found significant failings in the risk-management process.

The Department of Health has confirmed that Prof Appleby's report will be released on Monday.

I'll second that, I'd even put some time into it. or some more time.