LUNATIC’S ATTACK.
WOMAN AWARDED £3500. Mrs Holgatc. of Church Road, Lytliam, St. Anne's, was awarded £3500 damages at the Liverpool Assizes against the Lancashire Mental Hospitals Board and two officials of a mental hospital. She alleged that she had been assaulted by a lunatic, whom thev had negligently released. Mrs Holgatc opened the front door to a man, who asked for a cup of tea. She gave him tea and cake and when her back was turned he attacked her. The jury found that the Mental Hospitals Board and the two officials had been negligent in releasing on short leave a mentally defective man, aged 29, with a bad record of housebreaking, robbery, and sexual offences. This was the man who assaulted Mrs Holgate. Her husband was awarded £7OB. The defence was that the man had shown no violent tendencies, and the doctors, in view of the improvement in his condition, considered it advisable that he should be temporarily released.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 180, 1 July 1937, Page 9
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160LUNATIC’S ATTACK. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 180, 1 July 1937, Page 9
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