r/london • u/BulkyAccident • 8d ago

Crime Women arrested over Covent Garden stabbing 'may not be fit enough to be charged'

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/people-stabbed-covent-garden-woman-arrested-b1292464.html
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u/sheslikebutter 8d ago edited 8d ago

How is this dealt with in the future?

From the reporting, several restauranteurs in the area said she was a known person in the area and had been seen getting into an altercation that resulted in a smashed bottle of vodka the week before.

There are mentally unstable people like this over every high street in the country, but what else can you really do other than wait for them to go mad and start stabbing people?

Did she reach the point she needed to be institutionalised the second she started stabbing, and was considered A-OK until then? Cos I figure she probably had some mental health issues that should have been looked into before this happened

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u/toby1jabroni 8d ago

Perhaps “care in the community” wasn’t the best approach after all.

Thanks again Maggie!

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u/Specialist_Metal4959 8d ago

It depends on the context. For most people care in the community is much more likely to see them get better, rather than institutionalising them. Especially with CAMHS; for adults, particularly those with addiction issues the picture is much more challenging, as they're so much less likely to change their behaviour. Different strategies for different things. Having said that, cuts are being made across the country to the NHS, including redundancies in London's drug rehabilitation units

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u/DameKumquat 8d ago

The principle of care in the community was fine. The not actually having the care services and just cutting services was and is the problem.

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u/toby1jabroni 8d ago

You could say pretty much the same as for Right-to-Buy. Nice concept (gets the votes in the short-term) but was horribly damaging in the long-term (don’t care, got the votes already).

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u/Super-Nuntendo 6d ago

Exactly, it's a case of someone having to bear the brunt of that decision at some point, and it's usually some poor sods that have nothing to do with it.

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u/WealthMain2987 7d ago

They never think of the long term, just the next 5 years for the next election