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Article: High-risk Carstairs patients win release
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- February 4, 2007
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SEVEN high-risk patients at Carstairs mental hospital will be
released to less secure accommodation within weeks.
The patients were all judged by Scottish courts to pose a risk to
public safety but have had their security status downgraded partly as
a result of European human rights laws.
It is understood they include at least one paranoid schizophrenic
who was sent to Carstairs after a stabbing.
Instead of living behind the high fences and locked doors of
Carstairs, they will be kept in 'medium-secure' units and allowed
escorted outside visits.
Last week, a convicted killer and former Carstairs inmate went on
the run from a medium-secure unit in Edinburgh.
New laws, introduced to ...