Lessons learned from stabbing case

THE trust which provided mental health care to a man who stabbed a woman more than 20 times in a Littlehampton supermarket, said 'lessons had been learned' from the case.

By The Newsroom

Published 24th Feb 2009, 13:33 BST

Updated 8th Jun 2018, 04:01 BST

Samuel Reid-Wentworth (22) from Bognor Regis was ordered to be detained indefinitely at Broadmoor Hospital last Thursday.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Lisa Rodrigues said: "I am deeply sorry that Samuel Reid-Wentworth attacked Lucy Yates and that she suffered so badly at his hands."

Reid-Wentworth was a manipulative user of the trust's services, she said.

Thankfully, cases like these were rare but when they happened it was right that the trust learned everything it could from them to minimise the chances of similar incidents happening in the future.

For full story and court report see West Sussex Gazette February 25