'Lost opportunity' to treat ill man before fatal attack A coroner has delivered findings over a woman bashed to death in a random attack by a mentally ill man, released from prison 41 days earlier. AAP · Apr 30, 2025
Doctors released Michelle Foster's killer from hospital despite his homicidal thoughts, inquest hears A man who killed an Adelaide mother at a shopping centre presented at hospital and told clinicians he would "kill anyone", but was released, a coronial inquest hears. ABC News · Nov 22, 2022
Man who killed woman in random attack may have been crying out for help, inquest hears A request by an Adelaide prisoner with schizophrenia to move from a high-security jail to a mental health facility could have been a cry for help before he was released and killed an Adelaide mother, an inquest has heard. ABC News · Sep 20, 2022
Michelle Foster's killer hospitalised for homicidal ideation day after release from jail, inquest hears A man who killed an Adelaide woman in a random attack at a suburban shopping centre was hospitalised a day after his release from prison because he was experiencing homicidal ideation, a coronial inquest has heard. ABC News · Sep 19, 2022