NHS and police failings led to brutal murder of grandmother – report

NHS and police failings led to brutal murder of grandmother – report Nicola Edgington, who had previously murdered her own mother, killed Sally Hodkin after series of failings

A series of failings by the NHS and police led to a psychiatric patient brutally murdering a grandmother, a report has concluded.

Nicola Edgington almost decapitated Sally Hodkin, 58, with a butcher’s knife in Bexleyheath, south-east London, in 2011, six years after killing her own mother. Continue reading... The Guardian

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• CCTV shows killer walking calmly out of mental health unit before murdering grandmother, as report lists the failures that led to death The Daily Telegraph