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1. I’m trying to get info on the case of a woman who murdered her 4/5 yrs old daughter Jojo later part of 1980’s into 1990’s. She was originaly from Bedford but lived in Norfolk and imprissoned there. Both she and doting father(he from Nigeria) are Jehovah’s witnesses. Her previous name was Marie Stone before her marriage. She had mental health issues due to being ill and abnormaly large doses of steroid being miscalculated. I would greatly appreciate any info please.

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2. I worked in supported housing for people with mental health problems for 15 years in Bristol and know 5 of the people reported on from this list.
   Regarding Robert Cox from Bristol, and Derek Hancock, who killed him, its interesting how the SCR is both thorough and also misses the biggest contributing factor, that the HSR and process for funding supported housing in Bristol pushed services to move people on quickly, so the referal, even though it was to a service specialising in working with peopel with mental health needs glossed over his mental health, the focus was on the fact he was autistic and felt anxious and depressed. Nowhere did it explain he had feelings of persecution that were probabaly not based in reality.
   In truth almost all of his support needs and risks were around a delusional sense of persecution, he believed many other men he lived with were affecting him with their sexuality in some way, we took a long time to realise this as he revealed more of himself over time, intially his accusations of bullying did not mention the sexual element and were plausible.
   It was almost certainly responsible for his homelessness and use of supported housing., yet it was never explicitly stated. We wasted a lot of time learning this.
   Also it stated his previous service said he needed 24hr services, however, most of the time he seemed to have low support needs, the way the HSR works there is NO WAY they would have accepted him using 24hr support or even high support long term, he was simply too functional most of the time, the push to move people on and get them to lower support encouraged a culture where people would gloss over the real problems people had, like they did with Derek, It was all about pushing people through the stages of high to medium to low support, as they didnt think Derek was dangerous in my opinion they glossed over what was most likely to cause difficulty with being accepted by other services.
   While I maintain we could not have known he was going to do that, (especially that day, as he was very relaxed and calm till staff left the service, in fact I went home elated as he had seemed to turn a corner regarding engaging with other services about his mental health) I suspect knowing his real needs we would have only agreed to take him on if he engaged with mental health services, I will say it again, his real needs were never explicitly stated at referral.
   There were other issues with the actual HSR system which is essentially software, it was poorly laid out with a bizarre risk assessment system, recording support needs was also really poorly laid out, you could tick a box from a list to say what peoples support needs were, but the only point to write a narrative was in a box that looked very small, encouraging brief writing. Without a hint of arrogance i know i could have done better. No focus on just asking people to explain explicitly why people are homeless and how to change it. The system was also glitchy, showing previous pages when you tried to move on to reading about a different client amongst other issues.

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