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Furthermore he had not taken his medication for at least four months – something the social workers were powerless to enforce – and had threatened to harm Mrs Morrison.Michael Howlett, director of the Zito Trust said: “If a patient stops taking his medication, he is not only putting his mental well-being at risk but also the safety of the public around him.”The fact he could get kitchen knives in an environment that is not closely supervised just adds to the outrage in this horror. “Why was he allowed to deteriorate over six months and how could he stop taking his medication for four months?”Her views were echoed by mental health campaigners, after the Old Bailey trial had heard that no risk assessment had been carried out on Joseph when he was released into the community from the hospital. But Ms Morrison’s daughter, Tanya, 30, told The Independent she was angry that Joseph’s condition had been allowed to worsen to the point where he killed her mother. “There is risk of your committing further offences if set at large and it is necessary for the protection of the public from serious harm to make a restriction order not subject to limited time,” he said.Wandsworth Social Services said there would be a public inquiry.

The family of Jenny Morrison, 51, immediately condemned the system that allowed Anthony Joseph to kill his “compassionate and highly respected” social worker in a care in the community hostel.
Joseph, 27, expressed no emotion as the jury of five women and six men decided by majority that he was guilty of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility. They rejected the defence’s claim that he had been too insane to understand the illegality of his actions.His Honour Judge Michael Hyam, the Recorder of London, said Joseph should be sent back to Broadmoor secure psychiatric hospital indefinitely. A paranoid schizophrenic who believed he was the Son of God was locked up indefinitely yesterday, for stabbing his social worker more than 127 times with two kitchen knives. Unfortunately for me it was my mum who was in the way.”Ms Morrison said her mother was a dedicated and passionate advocate for the mentally ill, who worked from dawn ’till dusk and had refused promotion in order to remain in front line services.”The only consolation I have is that she died doing the job she loved,” she said.. Why was it not reported that he despised women and had delusions about my mother wanting to torture him? Surely somebody else should have been sent in to see him There was no reason to provoke him even further It was obvious he was going to explode. I just want to know why this happened.”
Ms Morrison, 30, said she wanted answers to why there was no proper risk assessment carried out on Joseph, why he was able to refuse medication for four months, how he was allowed to get hold of kitchen knives and why her mother was allowed to go into such a dangerous situation alone.”It is ludicrous. “But it is hard to believe that I am not going to see her again, that she is not going to just phone me and say, “I am back’ I don’t want to be consumed with anger and hatred.

Nor does she blame social services, as her mother had held them in such regard. But Tanya Morrison is scathing about the hostel workers and the system that she considers let both Joseph and her mother down

“Joseph was a time bomb waiting to go off I don’t blame him,” she told The Independent. For the families of Jennifer Morrison and Anthony Joseph these measures are too late.. JENNY MORRISON’S daughter doesn’t blame the man who killed her mother. There are proposals for compulsory community treatment orders, where patients who refuse medication would be re-admitted to hospital. A Government summit on the subject is planned for Autumn.Guidelines are proposed to ensure risk assessments are done, and further investment has been promised for medium-secure units, better drugs and secure beds.