Student's Grieving Family in Call for Changes ; Charity Is Fined After Tragedy
The Journal › February 02, 2010
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THE family of a student knifed to death by a paranoid psychotic have hit out at the failings that led to her "untimely, unnecessary and horrific" death.
Northumbria University student Ashleigh Ewing, 22, was killed by Ronald Dixon in Heaton, Newcastle, in May 2006 while working for a mental health charity which had been contracted to supervise his care in the community.See the full content of this document
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Student's Grieving Family in Call for Changes ; Charity Is Fined After Tragedy
The charity Mental Health Matters was yesterday ordered to pay pounds 50,000 after it admitted two breaches of Health and Safety laws by failing to protect the newly qualified support worker.
Newcastle Crown Court heard that even if Mental Health Matters had discharged its duties correctly it is possible Ewing could still have been attacked by Dixon.But after the case yesterday, Ashleigh's family called for "major changes" to prevent...See the full content of this document
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