In the wake of a public inquiry into the 2023 Nottingham killings — in which three people lost their lives to a man with severe, untreated mental illness — the head of one of Britain's foremost mental health charities has broken with her sector's long-held silence. Dr Sarah Hughes of Mind is acknowledging what advocates have long feared to say aloud: that a minority of people with severe mental illness do pose a risk of violence, and that the charitable sector's reluctance to name this truth, however well-intentioned, has carried its own grave cost. Her words arrive at a moment when the famili
Mental health charities must confront violence risk, says Mind chief
Three people were fatally stabbed in the Nottingham attacks on 13 June 2023: students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, and caretaker Ian Coates.