"Many of us know what it means to have a mother who is the heart of the family. That was true for us. As this case has unfolded, certain deeply troubling facts have emerged. The court has heard that a man with a severe mental illness was known to services and assessed by consultant psychiatrists as psychologically stable and safe for the community."
"At the same time, he was engaging in escalating behaviour outside those assessments, including acquiring weapons and researching extreme violence - behaviour that ultimately mirrored the violence he later carried out. That disconnect is hard to accept. It raises serious questions about how risk is assessed, and about whether current models are equipped to detect da"
Anita Mukhey, 66, was stabbed and killed at a bus stop in Edgware, north London, on 9 May 2024. The attacker, Jala Debella, 24, was found by a jury to have committed the killing but was deemed too unwell to stand trial for murder. Debella lived in a residential home supporting people with mental health problems, was reported to be obsessed with gory online videos, and bought a hunting knife online that was delivered about an hour before he stabbed Mukhey 18 times, mirroring violence he had viewed. The family questioned how risk assessments failed to detect escalating dangerous behaviour and access to weapons.
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