This Monday, the British government ordered a review of the medical services that treated a Portuguese-Guinean man for mental illness before he stabbed three people in June in Nottingham, central England.
Health and Social Care Secretary Victoria Atkins has ordered a special review of Nottinghamshire NHS Foundation Trust, where Waldo Kalokane was treated for paranoid schizophrenia.
Waldo Kalokane, who was born in Guinea-Bissau but has dual Portuguese citizenship, was last week sentenced to indefinite hospitalization in a maximum security hospital for the murders of students Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, 19, and Ian Coates, 65. , in Nottingham, 13 June 2023.
Family members criticized the verdict, local mental health services and the entire trial, arguing that Calokane should have been tried for murder rather than manslaughter, which he argued was a plea of diminished responsibility due to mental illness.
The government-commissioned inspection aims to provide more answers to families affected by the murders and look at other issues surrounding mental health care in the Nottingham region.
“It is vital that our mental health services ensure both patient care and public safety,” the minister was quoted as saying in the statement.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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