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“Why was he allowed to deteriorate over six months and how could he stop taking his medication for four months?” she said.Her views were echoed by mental health campaigners, after the Old Bailey trial was told that no risk assessment had been carried out on Joseph when he was released into the community. She added: “However this should never be allowed to happen again. The system failed both Jenny and Anthony.”The social services in Wandsworth, south London, said there would be a public inquiry. 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.

They rejected the defence’s claim that he had been too insane to understand the illegality of his actions. Judge Michael Hyam, the Recorder of London, said Joseph should be sent back to Broadmoor secure psychiatric hospital indefinitely.”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,” the judge said.Ms Morrison’s sister, Sandra Foster, said last night that the family was “relieved that the correct verdict was reached”. It also proposes a review of financial support for individuals in the age group. At present eight different agencies pay for eight different kinds of support.Ministers also promised that young offenders would be required to undertake 30 hours of education or training a week to ensure they started, or continued, to work towards graduation.Mr Blunkett is asking the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority to work on the concept of “graduation” and a graduation certificate.Anne McElvoy, Review, page 3. 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.

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, showed no emotion as the jury of five women and six men decided by a majority verdict that he was guilty of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility. This is a high cost for society but a second high cost results because so many of them end up on benefit.”The report suggests that young people would secure their graduation certificates either in full-time education, in vocational education or by studying while at work. Third, we must provide better support.”During the seminar, he met two 22-year-olds who explained how they became alienated from education and left school without qualifications.Baroness Blackstone, the Education minister, said: “These are wasted years for them [young people] and they will find themselves on the fast- track to social exclusion, marginalised and without any opportunity for permanent fulfilling work and most likely to get caught up in crime. Second, we must make it worthwhile for young people to stay in education. From September, ministers are also piloting educational maintenance allowances of up to pounds 50 to encourage teenagers to continue in education.The Prime Minister, who yesterday hosted a seminar at Downing Street on teenage drop-outs, said: “First, we want to look at ways of giving all young people a challenging common objective to aim for. ll young people will have personal careers advice from the age of 13.