£3500 DAMAGES.
CLAIM AGAINST HOSPITAL.
LONDON, June 20,
One day some time ago Mrs Holgate, of Lythain, Lancashire, opened her front door to a man who asked for a cup of tea. She gave him tea and cake, and then, when her back was turned, he attacked her, with the result that her skull was fractured and her 'wrist and hand broken.
At the Liverpool Assizes to-day Mrs Holgato was awarded £3500 damages against the Lancashire Mental Hospitals Board and two officials of a. mental institution, whom the jury found guilty 7 of negligence in releasing on short leave a mental defective, aged 29, with a bad record of housebreaking, robbery and sexual offences. Mrs Holgate’s husband was awarded £7OB. The defence was that the man had not shown any 7 violent tendencies, and that, in view of the improvement in his condition, doctors had considered it a case for temporary, release.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 228, 8 July 1937, Page 5
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