The mother of a man who killed a dog walker in a random attack is demanding a public apology from a health board for her son and the family of the man he killed . David Fleet, 20, stabbed a stranger days after being discharged from a psychiatric unit.
He was sent home despite warnings about his worsening mental state. Ten days later he stabbed 71-year-old Lewis Stone on a footpath near his home in Borth, Ceredigion. Mr Stone from Staffordshire, died as a result of his injuries three months later in May 2019.
An unpublished health board review into David Fleet’s care, prior to the attack, reveals how three weeks before he was sent home, a doctor warned he wasn’t ready to be discharged because of his worsening mental state and the risk he posed with knives, according to a BBC Wales investigation. Days later Fleet was sent home to be cared for in the community without anyone updating his risk assessment.
