The murder of a 'Good Samaritan' could have been avoided if his killer had been offered accommodation on leaving hospital, a report has found. Alan Geddes, 56, was killed in December 2019 after he offered a stranger a place to stay for the night in Aberdeen.
Stuart Quinn pleaded guilty to murdering Geddes, on the evening he was released from a psychiatric hospital. He was jailed for a minimum of 18 years in February 2021. The lead-up to the murder was investigated by an anonymised report by the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland.
It revealed that Quinn, referred to in the report as Mr TU, had four relatively brief admissions to a psychiatric hospital when he was 32. The admissions were between March and June 2018, and he was diagnosed with drug-induced psychosis.
