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September 18, 2014
A girl of 16 was stabbed to death on a bus by a paranoid schizophrenic who had not been given proper treatment for 12 years, a damning report reveals.
Christina Edkins died on her way to school when Phillip Simelane plunged a nine-inch kitchen knife into her chest in a tragedy that the report says could have been prevented.
Simelane, 23, was caught hours after the attack at a supermarket with the weapon in a carrier bag, and was jailed indefinitely after pleading guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Three months earlier, he had walked free from prison unsupervised despite his serious mental illness.
Yesterday’s report revealed how medical staff, police and the prison service missed a string of chances to get Simelane treatment over a 12-year period.
From April 2009 to December 2012 alone, he went through 17 mental health reviews or formal assessments by four organisations, involving a number of healthcare experts. Incredibly, none resulted in his detention under the Mental Health Act before Christina’s death on 7 March 2013.
The report, which was ordered by Birmingham Cross-City Clinical Commissioning Group, found the tragedy on the No9 bus in the city centre could have been prevented.
Review chairman Dr Alison Reed said: ‘As Christina’s death was directly related to [Simelane’s] mental illness, it could have been prevented if his mental health needs had been identified and met.’
The report included a victim impact statement from the girl’s mother, Kathleen Harris, 49, who said losing her daughter was like having her heart ‘ripped out’.
The 95-page document also made 51 recommendations to improve the way information is shared between the NHS, prison service and police force. Christina’s family – her mother, father Jason Edkins, 44, brother Ryan, 19, and sister Joanne, 25, from Halesowen, West Midlands, said in a statement: ‘We agree that the fatal attack on Christina could have been prevented.
‘A paranoid psychotic was left to his own devices, without continued medication, a vagrant living on buses without help or supervision from our public services.’
