Timothy Walsh, who has schizophrenia, is ordered to stay in hospital indefinitely.
A man with schizophrenia who stabbed a police officer four times during a welfare check has been detained indefinitely at a psychiatric hospital.
He ran at the officers holding a knife and stabbed one three times in the neck and once in the arm, Salisbury Crown Court was told.However, following a trial of issues, a jury found Walsh had carried out an act of causing grievous bodily harm. The court heard Walsh then approached the officers without warning and used a small knife to inflict the wounds, before being subdued with a Taser.Walsh, who was not in court to hear his sentence, was also found by the jury to have assaulted two police officers and two mental health workers during separate attacks in 2019 and 2020.
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