Paranoid schizophrenic who stabbed a young woman 21 times in a random attack ‘could have been stopped'

Three major opportunities were missed to assess risks posed by a paranoid schizophrenic who repeatedly stabbed a young woman in a supermarket, according to a report published today. Samuel Reid-Wentworth, who harboured fantasies about killing young women, inflicted around 21 stab wounds on Lucy Yates with a pocket knife six weeks after being discharged from a mental health unit. After spotting Miss Yates from on board a bus, he alighted and followed her into the Somerfield store at Littlehampton, West Sussex, where she was going to buy groceries. Miss Yates, then 22, survived the attack, in September 2008.

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