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Evening Standard
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Rod Minchin

Patient who absconded from psychiatric unit jailed for killing pensioner

A patient detained under the Mental Health Act was able to leave a secure psychiatric unit after the front door was left unlocked and later went on to kill an elderly church warden at her home, a court heard.

David Parish, 38, randomly attacked Beryl Purdy with a large golf umbrella he had taken from her porch and inflicted fatal head injuries.

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