murderer escapes while on shopping trip

[PeedOffWithNits]

how the heck can this be allowed to happen??

!!!

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but I have to say I'm intrigued as to why they don't know how tall she is?

That is insane! Why is she allowed out shopping in the first place if she is extremely dangerous?!

Un-be-frigging-lievable!

There must be more to this.
And like alfa says 5'3 to 5'8 is a hell of a jump!
But still

{shock]

Words fail me...whay was she out shopping or have I missed something?

i thought the same about the height. different heights but its like standing me next to db huge difference.

surely they must know how tall she is?? 'tis most odd.

ye cos they do your height when your arrested so surely that should be on file

I think the key here is that she was being held in a hospital and not a prison. So I imagine the rules must be different.

But even so - it is madness to let someone so dangerous out without excessive supervision. Wouldn't it have ben better to have clothes brought into the hospital instead?

haven't they heard of internet shopping?

Patients work towards what is known as Section 17 Leave- ultimately the responsibility for this will lie with her Responsible Clinician (Consultant Psych in charge of her care)- at some point she would have demonstrated that she is suitable escorted community leave (through a period of escorted ground leave etc)

Its very different to prison, the emphasis is on treatment- not punishment.

this escaped prisoner has been recaptured now, thankfully

Apparently she went 'missing' in the area in which she committed the murder. I can't help but feel that she shouldn't have been taken to that area in the first place.

The place she went missing is the most local shopping centre to where she is being treated.

Surely if they were being taken out then they would go somewhere within walking distance?

well, personally I am with shockers, I don't think she should have been taken somewhere so local to where her crime was committed - what about family and friends of the victim seeing her there perhaps, and who knows what sort of "kick" might someone get from returning to the scene of their crime?

Peed off and Shockers - She committed the crime in Streatham which is a fair old way from where her hospital is.

I used to work in the high street where she escaped and we dealt with people who were Bethlem residents.

Although if the police still regard her as extremely dangerous then she shouldn't be allowed to mix with the public unless they have sufficient measures in place to protect them.