A mental health nurse cornered by a violent patient trying to "stab him to death" was left to fight for his life after his personal alarm failed to activate.
Edward Inatimi was left bleeding from wounds to his stomach, on April 18 last year, after 74-year-old Raymond Pearse racially abused him and launched an unprovoked attack without warning.
Pearse had spent much of his life in mental health institutions since being sectioned in 1975 and had a chronic and "treatment resistant" form of paranoid schizophrenia. He was living in Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust run unit Heys Court, in Garston, at the time of the incident.
