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Sophie Doughty

Odessa Carey discharged from mental health care just months before she decapitated own mum

Odessa Carey was discharged from the community mental health team looking after her treatment just months before she decapitated her mum, an inquest has heard.

And a senior psychiatric nurse involved in her care has told how she warned her superiors that she did not have "capacity" to take the patient on as she described working for the mental health trust as "chaotic" at the time.

Mentally-ill Carey killed her 73-year-old mother before cutting off her head in April 2019. Her mum, who had the same name, was found dead on a bed at her home in Ashington.

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