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Mother 'injected brain-damaged son with fatal dose of heroin to end misery' - Daily Telegraph 5th January 2010
"A mother injected her brain-damaged son with a fatal dose of heroin while out on bail for a previous attempt at "ending his misery", a court heard. "
Murder rate drops as paramedics get better at keeping people alive - The Times 2nd January 2010
"The murder rate has fallen to its lowest level in 20 years but police admit that the main reason may be the skills of paramedics and advances in medicine rather than a decline in violent attacks.
Official figures to be published this month are expected to show a dramatic fall in the number of murders in the year to the end of last March."
Shipman letters withdrawn from auction - Manchester Evening News 7th October 2009
"A CONTROVERSIAL collection of letters written by mass murderer Harold Shipman has been withdrawn from an auction.
Shipman wrote the letters to former patients David and Mavis Stott while he was in prison."
Shipman letters auction 'may not go ahead' - Manchester Evening News 7th October 2009
"A CONTROVERSIAL auction of letters written by serial killer Harold Shipman from behind bars may not now go ahead.
The owner of the letters and the auctioneer insist the correspondence provides a unique insight into Shipman's thoughts but they say they are re-considering the sale because of the 'upset' caused to relatives of the GP's victims. "
Mother whose junkie boyfriend killed her toddler son walks free despite knowing all about abuse - Daily Mail 3rd October 2009
"A judge today ignored a report by experts declaring a mother who stood by as her junkie boyfriend beat up her son was still dangerous and allowed her to go free.
Nichola Bowman, 24, was found guilty of 'causing or allowing' the death of her son Joshua, two, who was killed by her drug-addict partner Wayne Davenport."
Care system 'failed' our brother - BBC Health News 3rd October 2009
"Sunday lunch was one of the highlights of Alan Scott's week when he used to meet with the rest of his family at his parents' home to catch up with family news.
Collete McCormack and Christine Walker
Collete McCormack and Christine Walker say their brother's care was flawed
Yet on 31 March 2008 after eight days without the medication for his schizophrenia, the popular sociable 36-year-old turned up at the family home in Liverpool, convinced by voices he heard, and killed his parents. "
GP struck off after drugging and raping women he met on marriage website - Daily Mail 3rd October 2009
"Medical chiefs yesterday ruled that a GP who posed as a wealthy banker on a dating website to find women to drug and rape should be struck off.
Anil Tangotra, 53, was branded a 'sexual predator' and jailed for 11 years after being convicted. "
Fury at Shipman letters auction - Manchester Evening News 28th September 2009
PLANS to auction letters written by serial killer Harold Shipman from behind bars have sparked outrage from the families of his victims.
The letters were sent to David Stott and his wife Mavis, who were patients of the Hyde GP. In them, Shipman pours scorn on his trial and the subsequent inquests and public inquiry, insisting he is innocent.
Murder trial hears mother 'took her daughter to see doctor then stabbed her to death' - Daily Mail 9th September 2009
A woman who stabbed her two teenage daughters to death as they slept bought the murder weapons an hour after taking one child to a GP for a routine appointment, a jury heard.
Rekha Kumari-Baker took 13-year-old Jasmine to see a doctor at around 4.45pm, an hour before she went to Asda and bought knives to kill her children.
Mother jailed for doping to death her 20-month-old son - Daily Mail 9th September 2009
A 'selfish' mother killed her 20-month-old son by drugging him with painkillers to 'make her life easier', a court heard today.
Laura-Jane Vestuto, 28, crushed up pills into son Renzo's milk and orange juice to stop him crying over several months.
Cannibal killer murdered again after mental care failures - The Guardian 3rd September 2009
A cannibalistic killer who murdered a friend and cooked and ate part of his brain was able to carry out two murders in two months because of "systemic failures" in mental healthcare, an NHS inquiry revealed today.
Peter Bryan's symptoms were so unusual, however, that even experienced psychiatrists were fooled by his amiable behaviour, the investigation concluded.
'Systemic NHS failures' allowed cannibal Peter Bryan to kill twice - The Times 4th Septemeber 2009
Systemic failures in the NHS allowed a convicted killer to be treated in the community where he later murdered a friend and boasted of eating parts of his brain, an official report has found.
Peter Bryan, who suffers from schizophrenia, was originally convicted of manslaughter in 1994 after he beat Nisha Sheth, a 20-year-old shop assistant, so violently that she died.
NHS blunders allowed cannibal Peter Bryan to kill two - Daily Telegraph 3rd September 2009
A catalogue of systemic failings and blunders allowed a schizophrenic killer, Peter Bryan, to murder two more people, including eating parts of the brain of one, two inquiries have found.
Cannibal was able to kill following 'systematic NHS failure': report - Daily Telegraph 3rd September 2009
A schizophrenic was allowed to live as an outpatient and went on to murder a friend and eat parts of his brain because of a ''systematic failure'' in his treatment by the NHS, a report has found.
Brain-eating convicted killer freed to murder two more after social worker bungles - Daily Mail 3rd September 2009
A 'systematic failure' in the treatment of a schizophrenic allowed him to murder a friend and eat parts of his brain before he went on to kill a fellow patient in Broadmoor,two separate reports have revealed.
Convicted killer Peter Bryan was given permission to live in a hostel in north London where he could come and go as he pleased.
NHS failings on cannibal detailed - BBC Health News 3rd September 2009
Two reports are to detail NHS failings over the handling of a schizophrenic killer who killed two more people after release from a secure hospital.
Peter Bryan, 39, of east London, killed a friend and ate parts of his brain in 2004 - two years after being released from Rampton, in Nottinghamshire.
Toddler murdered by stepfather after terrible abuse was 'largely invisible' to social services - Daily Mail 27th August 2009
Social workers could have saved a toddler's life if they had not ignored clear evidence of abuse at the hands of her mother and her partner, an independent inquiry revealed tonight.
Sanam Navsarka had all her limbs broken and 107 visible injuries when she died after a month of physical abuse.
A damning report concluded the vulnerable two-year-old was 'largely invisible' to social workers involved with the wider family.
'Studious' medical student murdered two women so she could study death - Daily Mail 22nd July 2009
A medical student murdered two elderly women so she could study the process of dying for her doctorate.
The 24-year-old - named only as Tatyana - killed her victims with an axe before observing their last moments.
Schizophrenic Alan Scott who stabbed parents to death is detained in hospital - Liverpool Echo 21st July 2009
A PARANOID schizophrenic who stabbed both his parents to death in a frenzied attack was today detained indefinitely in hospital.
Alan Scott, 36, turned on dad Alan senior and mum Stella Scott at their Allerton home during a delusional episode.
Parents doted on schizophrenic son - Liverpool Echo 21st July 2009
PARANOID schizophrenic Alan Scott would visit his loving parents nearly every day.
The court heard Alan and Stella Scott doted on their children and helped their son despite his lengthy illness.
Scott’s sisters Collette and Christine said: “They saw Alan nearly every day and were both extremely supportive of Alan and his illness. They stood by him throughout all the many troubles and difficult times that he had.
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