A mental health nurse found himself in a desperate fight for his life after being suddenly cornered, racially abused and stabbed by a patient with a flick-knife.
Victim Edward Inatimi suffered puncture wounds to his stomach in the attack, on April 18 last year, launched by 74-year-old Raymond Pearse who had a chronic and "treatment resistant" form of paranoid schizophrenia.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that Pearse had a history of serious violence and had spent much of his adult life in mental health institutions since being sectioned in 1975. The court heard before the incident, he had absconded from Heys Court, Garston, a unit run by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust which houses older patients with severe mental health conditions.
