THE CASE OF JASON MITCHELL : Report of the Independent Panel of Inquiry

Softcover. On sentencing Jason Mitchell to three terms of life imprisonment for the manslaughter in December 1994 of 3 people - first a retired couple and subsequently his father, whose body he dismembered - the judge at Ipswich Crown Court on July 7, 1995 stated that it was difficult to understand why Jason Mitchell, a restricted patient, had been allowed back into the community. Were the doctors at fault in their diagnosis of Jason's psychotic symptons? Were they wrong in thinking that he was fit to return to the community so soon after being hospitalised in 1990? Did the Mental health Review Tribunals in 1991 and 1993, which sanctioned his conditional discharge, act in error in arriving at their decision? What happened to his prison medical records of 1988-9, which disclosed signs of oncoming schizophrenia while he was serving a sentence of 2yrs' youth custody? And were the doctors, probation officers and social workers handicapped by the absence of these records? These and many other pertinent questions relating to the management of Jason Mitchell's case by mental health services, and the care and treatment he received from doctors and nurses, are fully explored and explained in this report of the independent panel of inquiry set up by Suffolk Health Authority. With Annexes, Glossary of Terms and Index. 304pp. trade size softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. With tiny nick to fore-edge of fr. cover o/w Vg+ with no creasing to covers.