And They Will Keep On Failing, Because There Are No Consequences For Failure

Another day, another failing by the State' agents:

Police and social services failings may have contributed to the fatal stabbing of a 'peaceful and loving' musician by a mentally ill teenage girl, a coroner has ruled.

And of course, in that modern day inversion of reality, the mad one with the lethal weapon is the one who is considered the ‘vulnerable’ one and not her innocent victim:

The girl - who was known to be vulnerable and was on a Child Protection Plan - had been flagged as posing a 'high risk' and often 'carried a knife' around with her.

And no-one thought that might be a good enough reason to ensure she didn’t simply wander the streets? 

Just four days before the fatal attack, the girl - referred to as Child A - had gone missing from her home in Three Bridges, Crawley in West Sussex. Police located her but were unable to return her home, because her mother was away in London. Officers decided not to take her into protective custody and instead allowed her to stay with a woman who claimed to be her 'cousin'.

Well, perhaps they didn’t have a good reason to disbelieve th….

Oh! 

However the woman was not a relative and was known to police as a drug user with previous criminal convictions.

*sighs* 

Ms Schofield also said social services had failed to hold an emergency strategy meeting which had been organised when the child went missing.Ms Schofield added: 'It is possible that had these matters been addressed, the perpetrator may not have been in a position to carry out the act which led to Mr Hendrick's death.'

Mr Hendricks said: 'The police and authorities failed, they failed in every sense of the word.'

Yes, as they've done so very many times! And because there are never any consequences for failure, they will keep on doing it. 

Police arrested the girl, who had a criminal record, and she was later judged to be suffering from a 'significant abnormality of mind'. The teenager pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility at Bristol Crown Court in 2022 and was sentenced to nine years - five in custody and four on extended licence.

Meaning, 'in a town near you, at some point', never anywhere senior judges or police officers live, of course. The risk of her reverting to type is for you to take, never them.