Relatives of a paranoid schizophrenic man in England called the police several times and reported that his condition was worsening, but they responded to the call only three hours later and witnessed the massacre, writes the Daily Mail.
Two months before the murder, the man stopped taking antipsychotic drugs, and his condition gradually began to worsen.
A resident of the British city of Braintree, Essex, Jake Neath, inflicted 173 stab wounds to his 33-year-old partner Susan Brown . The Independent Police Monitoring Bureau found that the male relatives who were in Spain called the police twice, but the calls were ignored and intervened when it was too late. The agency established that attention was drawn to the incident in 2017 only three hours after the second call from the Nita family.
Investigation in 2018 showed that the call was delayed due to the wrong category being processed during processing. However, the Independent Bureau for Controlling the Actions of Police Officers law enforcement dropped all charges, although it admitted that the actions of the staff who took the calls were “substandard.” The crime provoked a resonance, and the Braintree police departments thought about hiring psychiatrists who could help to respond in a timely manner to such calls.
In February, 46-year-old resident of the Australian city of Perth, Upendra Ihalehewa, stabbed his wife to death. After his arrest, he complained that he had repeatedly seen ghosts with her faces. According to him, the woman suddenly appeared in front of him, like a ghost that had come for him. It was later revealed that Ikhalekheva suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.