Mental health staff did not effectively act upon a man's grave concerns reported to them about his severely unwell cousin – hours before he was brutally murdered by him.
The NHS has published an independent investigation into the care and treatment of Ashley Rowen, also known as Ashley Glennon, by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH). The mentally ill Rowen chased his cousin and main carer, Ryan Lowry, down the street and struck him 13 times with an axe in Partington on February 27, 2020.
In a catalogue of errors by the troubled mental health trust, the dangerous ‘sex offender' Rowen had managed to persuade mental health staff that he was not a ‘high-risk patient’. But staff did not corroborate Rowen’s story, failed to act on his history of well-documented violent behaviour, and did not allocate him a professional care manager before he killed Ryan in the street, the independent investigation found.
