The mother of a 23-year-old who was killed when a mentally ill knifeman stabbed eight victims has described the findings of an inquiry into multiple government agencies as a catalogue of “astonishing failings and incompetence”.
An independent investigation into the supervision of paranoid schizophrenic Zephaniah McLeod, commissioned by the NHS, said he was released from HMP Parc in south Wales “with no planned contact with statutory services” five months before he launched a series of knife attacks in Birmingham on September 6 2020.
