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Sally Hind

Brutal killing of Scots mum stabbed to death by mentally ill patient to be probed by sheriff

The brutal killing of a mum stabbed to death by a mentally ill patient she tried to help is to be probed by a sheriff.

Joanne Gallacher was knifed 57 times by James Kennedy at his flat in Biggar, Lanarkshire, in December 2018 - just hours after he was deemed fit to be sent home from hospital by psychiatrists.

The 33-year-old’s heartbroken family previously told how they held the NHS “solely to blame” for the mum-of-four’s death because of the lack of care her killer received.

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