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'Failings' in health trust care led to patients killing twice
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Yorkshire Post
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July 3, 2008
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A mental health trust has been accused of signing a man's "death
warrant" after two patients killed people in the same weekend.
Independent reports on attacks by Thomas Wright, 55, and Sean
Perry, 32, yesterday revealed failings in their medical care.
Wright stabbed his wife 77 times with a kitchen knife at their
home in Tooting, south London, on February 17 2006.
His GP had urgently referred him to South West London and St
George's Mental Health Trust's local community mental health team a
fortnight earlier - but he was not seen.
A day later, paranoid schizophrenic Perry, a patient of the same
trust, killed a fitness instructor in a random attack in Tooting.
Perry was twice a patient at ...