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Around the time of VC’s sentencing for manslaughter (on the grounds of diminished responsibility), Dr Sanjoy Kumar – Grace’s father – went on television to talk about their campaign for justice and a public inquiry.  During his appearance he said something I’d not known up to that point but which really shocked me: VC was […]

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In a recent training event with Approved Mental Health Professionals, the subject came up (AGAIN and AGAIN, actually) about what I call “no warrant, no police” – This is the practice of police forces responding to requests for officers to attend Mental Health Act assessments in private premises by saying “unless the AMHP has a […]

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I was wondering to someone only last week whether there had been any equality impact assessments for Right Care, Right Person and whilst googling searching for something else entirely, I stumbled across the Metropolitan Police equality impact assessment, completed in 2023. Naturally, I was quite intrigued to read it! I had to stop reading after […]

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My best guess is that when Inspector (then PC) Katie Eustace attended a disturbance in Nottingham involving criminal damage on 24th May 2020, she had absolutely no idea she would be sat six years later in a live-televised public inquiry, trying to recall and explain in intimate detail the various investigative considerations, lines of enquiry […]

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The public inquiry in to the attacks in June 2023 in Nottingham begins today in London.  This is the first public inquiry in to mental health homicides in the United Kingdom, to the best of Julian Hendy’s knowledge. It will examine the attacks on – Wayne Birkett Ian Coates Marcin Gawronski Grace O’Malley-Kumar Sharon Miller […]

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