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Sophie Doughty & John-Paul Clark

Woman discharged from mental health care months before she cut off her mum's head

A woman was discharged by the community mental health team only months before she decapitated her mum, an inquest has been told.

An overworked senior psychiatric nurse who helped to care for Odessa Carey told how she warned that she did not have "capacity" to take the patient on, and described working for the mental health trust as "chaotic."

Carey killed her 73-year-old mum, who shared the same name, and cut off her head at her home in Ashington in April 2019, reports Chronicle Live.

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