Zara Radcliffe assaulted 88-year-old John Rees, hitting him with wine bottles and a fire extinguisher in the supermarket in an unprovoked attack in May 2020
The 'warning signs' were missed before a mentally-ill woman bludgeoned a pensioner to death in a Co-op store, a review has said. Zara Radcliffe, 30, assaulted 88-year-old John Rees in the supermarket in an unprovoked attack on May 5, 2020.
She was assessed as being “profoundly mentally ill” with schizophrenia at the time of the offence. She had been hearing voices telling her that people were going to slit her throat and she had stopped taking her medication because of the side effects, an independent review found. The review said: "Responses to their phone calls fell short of their expectations. Since [Radcliffe] did not have a Care and Treatment Plan in place, she did not have a crisis plan."
Her parents were "frustrated that mental health services did not engage with the reach of her distressing life events", which they believe began when she discovered her fiancé and father of her child had left her. "[Radcliffe’s] subsequent relationships were violent and [she] increasingly relied on drugs and alcohol," the report said. "Over time, the voices [Radcliffe] could hear became menacing. They threatened her.
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