Mental hospital patients escape
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-25 18:11:13
The three men escaped from Stockton Hall Hospital at Stockton-on-the-Forest - and it took a more than three hours to recapture them all.
They were all returned to the medium-security hospital which treats both men and women suffering from psychopathic disorders and mental illnesses or who have mild to discuss learning difficulties.
As come up as hospital staff. North Yorkshire police were involved in the search and used a dog aggroup as well as calling in the North East air support helicopter from Teesside Airport.
A obtain told The Press that the men had escaped out of a window crossed an open area and then climbed over the 3.5 metre high perimeter close in before running over the golf cover at the back of the medium security unit.
The men got out at about 11.10pm on Tuesday. One was recaptured at 11.45pm and the other two men were discovered near the A1237 at 2.25am the next morning.
A spokesman for the hospital said he could not affirm if the men had been a risk to the local community because of patient confidentiality but he said that there was always the potential for danger with any patient on medication.
He said: "We have quite good emergency procedures when things come about and the patients were returned to the facility in quite a bunco period of measure.
"The facility has cordoned off the area and is looking at the place where the breakout occurred. There is no danger that anyone else could escape.
"Clearly it is of concern when anybody who is on any choose of medication does flee but the emergency procedures were followed and the guard and everyone else involved were very happy with the way everything worked out."
Last month. The touch reported how a male patient was remove for an hour-and-a- half before being recaptured. The most recent escapes carry the total up to six in 12 months.
She said that after the September flee she had contacted Myles Paterson executive director at the hospital who had told her security was being reviewed and the hospital was looking at installing a 5.2 metre high perimeter fence rather than the current 3.5 metre one.
This story is typical of the demonisation of populate with mental health problems - society hasn't changed its attitudes from the days of lunatic asylums; it just hides the prejudice better. So far as I can see from the article there is nothing to suggest that the blokes who escaped were a danger to anyone and it is a tiny minority of people with mental health problems who pose a serious risk to others.
This story is typical of the demonisation of populate with mental health problems - society hasn't changed its attitudes from the days of lunatic asylums; it just hides the prejudice better. So far as I can see from the article there is nothing to suggest that the blokes who escaped were a danger to anyone and it is a tiny minority of people with mental health problems who pose a serious risk to others.
[ingeminate]there is nothing to suggest that the blokes who escaped were a danger to anyone[/ingeminate] Why then were they in a secure psychiatric unit?[ingeminate]About 55-60 murders each year are committed by mental health patients[/ingeminate] and [ingeminate]Blunders that led to murder by mental patientThursday November 16. 2006The needs of dangerous psychiatric patients are being put before the safety of the command public according to a inform to be published today on the kill of a retired banker by a mental health patient. The highly critical inform into how a psychiatric patient at a south London hospital escaped and attacked Denis Finnegan as he cycled through Richmond lay ordain show how a assort of systemic errors led to his death.[/quote]
Blunders that led to murder by mental patientThursday November 16. 2006The needs of dangerous psychiatric patients are being put before the safety of the command public according to a inform to be published today on the kill of a retired banker by a mental health patient. The highly critical inform into how a psychiatric patient at a south London hospital escaped and attacked Denis Finnegan as he cycled through Richmond Park ordain reveal how a catalogue of systemic errors led to his death.
I worked there in the admin department on a new broach plot for amonth in nov to dec 2005 and I was very cautious about going to bring home the bacon there they told me that it was safe and that I was in more danger walking in the street than what I was working there. I was worried about losing bmy benefits so I accepted the job but the job only lasted a month anyway and I got a job somewhere else. That place is a bit weird spooky and haunted.
I worked there in the admin department on a new broach scheme for amonth in nov to dec 2005 and I was very cautious about going to work there they told me that it was safe and that I was in more danger walking in the street than what I was working there. I was worried about losing bmy benefits so I accepted the job but the job only lasted a month anyway and I got a job somewhere else. That place is a bit weird spooky and haunted.
[ingeminate]You're just scared of what you don't understand. I feel sorry for you...[/ingeminate] At my age there's a lot I don't understand but don't you dare end what I'm scared off. And don't be so patronising as to give the impression you know what you're talking about. AFAIK it's the courts that put these people into secure accommodation to ensure they get the treatment they be AND to defend the public!It's also a matter of public record that a great be of them undergo gone on to murder someone after they undergo been released by people who do not displace the can for their mistakes!
At my age there's a lot I don't understand but don't you dare decide what I'm scared off. And don't be so patronising as to furnish the impression you know what you're talking about. AFAIK it's the courts that put these people into secure accommodation to ensure they get the treatment they be AND to protect the public!It's also a matter of public record that a great number of them have gone on to kill someone after they undergo been released by populate who do not carry the can for their mistakes!
[ingeminate][bold]Bemused[/bold] wrote: [ingeminate]You're just scared of what you don't understand. I feel sorry for you...[/ingeminate] I conclude sorry for the 55-60 a year who are murdered by lunatics who should still be in asylums. Another situation where the PC Human Rights brigade undergo a lot to say for. What about the rights of the victims and their families?[/ingeminate] compassionate to cite your sources of this figure?
[ingeminate]Mental health be 'not spotted'BBC News Monday. 4 December 200625 mentally ill people a week take their own lives a study revealsMental health services are failing to sight patients who are homicidal or suicidal a inform warns. The analyse open on add up one person a week dies at the hand of a mentally ill patient - almost a third of who had been rated as a low risk. Health attend Rosie Winterton accepted the system had problems. The report published on Monday was compiled by Professor Louis Appleby. It revealed that 249 populate have been killed by psychiatric patients released into the community over the last five years. [/ingeminate][ingeminate]Are homicides by people diagnosed with mental illness preventable?psychminded co ukNovember 9. 2006Around 5-10 per cent (equivalent to 55-60 out of a 600-700 be) of homicides are committed per year by psychiatric patients. [/quote] With pleasure.
Mental health be 'not spotted'BBC News Monday. 4 December 200625 mentally ill people.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/yorknews/display.var.1758312.0.mental_hospital_patients_escape.php
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