LUNATIC’S ATTACK
WOMAN AWARDED .£3501). LONDON. June IL Mrs. Holgate. of Church-road, Lvtham. St. Anne’s, was awarded £.3500 damages at the Liverpool Assizes against the Lancashire Mental Hospitals Board and two official:; of a in. mat hospital. She alleged that she had been assaulted by a lunatic, whom liiey had negligently released. Mr.-. Holgate opened the front door to a man. who asked for a cup ol tea. She gave him let', and cake, ami 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 mentrllv defective man. aged 29, with a bad record of housebreakhig, robbery,. ami sexual offences. Tiiir. was the man who assaulted Mrs. Holgate.
Her husband was awarded .C7OB. 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 temporarilv released.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 June 1937, Page 11
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