The Lancashire Evening Post report:

The Evening Post today lifts the lid on the number of mental health patients who go on to kill.

Figures show 15 people under the care of Lancashire Care Foundation Trust (LCFT), responsible for mental health services in the county, killed in the last 10 years, leaving a toll of 16 victims.

Nine were in 2011 – the highest number in a year out of organisations that responded to a Freedom of Information request to trusts around the country.

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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.