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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

Family of schizophrenic man who killed parents say it was preventable

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William Warrington slipped out of hospital in Gloucestershire and stabbed his mother, Valerie, before taking her car to kill his father, Clive, above. Photograph: Gloucestershire police/PA

The family of a man with paranoid schizophrenia who stabbed his parents to death after absconding from a psychiatric hospital have criticised the authorities for not doing more to protect them.

On the day before William Warrington killed his mother, Valerie, 73, and father, Clive, 68, the family sent 11 emails to the Gloucestershire hospital where he was being treated expressing concern about him.

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