A nurse who treated a patient before he absconded and stabbed an elderly couple to death tells an inquest that police 'should have been there.'
Marjorie and Michael Cawdery were killed in a stabbing at their home in Portadown, County Armagh, in 2017A nurse at Craigavon Area Hospital has told an inquest the police "should have been there" when she examined a man who went on to kill an elderly couple.Their killer, Thomas Scott McEntee, was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.
A short time later he absconded from the hospital grounds before stabbing Mr and Mrs Cawdery to death.Gemma Skeath, one of the nurses triaging patients arriving by ambulance that day, said when McEntee was handed over to her she was not aware of the seriousness of the situation. Before she had a chance to get the needle in a vein in his arm he told her it "wasn't right" and they fought over the needle.Although she was concerned about his mental state she said there was nothing she could do to stop him.Nurse Skeath then contacted the sister in charge - Sister Ciara Loughran - to activate the Southern Trust's absconding protocol.
Sister Loughran said she was unsure of the exact amount of time it took her to complete all the steps required before phoning the police but thought it was less than 30 minutes.
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