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00:003-3, go ahead.
00:07They are now all on a hard shoulder on the northbound, but the collision itself had took place in lane 3 at the southbound.
00:15So they were trying to get back across the carriageway and they've been struck.
00:21I'm not a doctor, she has been knocked down by...
00:22Is she the one that speaks English, or the other one?
00:24Yes. The other one, she's gonna run...
00:26Oh no! Shit!
00:30Oh, jeez!
00:32Swedish twins Sabina and Ursula Eriksson were causing mayhem on the motorway.
00:37Are you gonna see all my organs, you pet?
00:40They were on some kind of suicidal mission.
00:45Help! Help!
00:48At this point, nobody could have predicted the events that were gonna unfold.
00:52What started as a horrific incident then led to the brutal stabbing of an innocent man.
01:00Why would she stab him? All I know is he was trying to help her.
01:06They said she was suffering from folio deur, which I've never heard of.
01:13Folio deur is a very rare psychiatric condition.
01:18A French term meaning the madness of two. It's almost as if you would consider it being contagious.
01:27How ridiculous. How can someone catch a mental illness of somebody?
01:31On social media, you have people posting their own theories.
01:38And various colourful opinions about what happened took on a life of their own.
01:44I'll tell you what I thought. I thought it was drugs.
01:46Basically a theory that they were lab rats.
01:48One of the officers described her as having inhuman strength.
01:51Senior officers to the scene, we've got two possible fatals.
01:54After the incident on the M6, where they were running into oncoming traffic and causing mayhem on the motorway.
02:21Help me!
02:23It's arresting.
02:24We're keeping everything safe for you, sir.
02:27Sabina Erickson was convicted and sentenced to one day in custody, which she'd already served.
02:35So she was released from the magistrate's court and sent on her way.
02:43After Sabina was released from the courthouse, she was seen wandering the streets of Fenton.
02:53Sabina Erickson, who had been drinking at the Royal Oak pub.
02:57It was time to go home.
02:58I started walking up Christchurch Street and as we were walking up there was a woman.
03:04She stuck out like a sore thumb in the middle of the street, wearing this big bubble jacket with all the stuff in a plastic bag.
03:12She seemed a little distressed.
03:26Lost, certainly not very focused.
03:30We started a conversation and my sister was in hospital and she was trying to find her and she said I need to find her bed and breakfast.
03:44And Glenn said, there's nothing around here for you to stay at.
03:51Come back to mine.
03:51We'll have a bite to eat and then try to locate your sister or find you somewhere to stay.
03:57I can see how somebody with an outside lens looking in on this might think, what on earth would they do that for?
04:11But Stoke-on-Trent's not a big city. It is a place of working class people, largely.
04:19People who take pride in being friendly and approachable and welcoming to everyone.
04:26Glenn, I suppose, was a rebel of the family, but in a nice way.
04:38We grew up in the Air Force as a group of five boys, brothers. We were very close-knit.
04:46Glenn followed in my father's footsteps. He joined the Air Force.
04:50He was a medic when he left and went to join Mitchell in making tyres in Stoke-on-Trent.
05:02When he settled in Stoke, it wasn't far from where I live.
05:05He was coming round all the time. He helped out with my mum.
05:10Yusuf fascinated my mother by telling her stories, you know, history stories and stuff.
05:14She could sit there all day listening. Spent a lot of time together.
05:17We'd come up the house, we'd have meals. He loved cooking curry. So, really hot.
05:26We used to meet up and take the dogs out. He had a real soft spot.
05:32He would do anything for you. If he had 10 pence and it was his last, he'd give it to you.
05:38It was really good that way. And if he saw anybody who needed help, he would offer help.
05:48Glenn offered Sabina a place to stay for the night, fed her, made sure she was comfortable
05:55and looked after her. But when they were in the house together, her behaviour was a little alarming.
06:05She seemed quite open and warm. But then, in the quiet moments, she was getting quite paranoid,
06:16then pulling the curtains to one side. I'm looking out and then quickly just snatching them back.
06:24I responded a little bit unsettled by this. I'm looking at Glenn for reassurance. And he's like,
06:30it's all right, it's all right.
06:31I'm looking at the police.
06:32I'm looking at the police.
06:33Sabina, she'd had a pretty traumatic few days. She'd been injured on a motorway. She'd spent time in a
06:40police cell. She'd seen her sister cast off in an air ambulance. And she was in a strange country.
06:48These are sorts of events which can only feed into somebody's existing paranoia. If that paranoia is
06:57already there.
06:57There was this growing fear inside of me thinking, who is this woman? She's hiding from someone.
07:04She gets out her cigarettes and she offers them round to myself and Glenn. We take one and just as we're
07:12about to light up, she just snatches them quite furiously and says, they might be poisoned. You can't
07:20have them. I was taken by by that. Like, what? Your cigarettes are poisoned? And this was a pack of
07:27cigarettes that she'd been smoking from all night. This is beyond weird now. Something's not right
07:34about this woman. Glenn was, he was quite relaxed and comfortable with it. I think he was just
07:40dismissing it off as quirky. I personally just wanted to get out of that situation as quickly
07:48and as calmly as possible. Peter was clearly suspicious of Sabina's behaviour and left the house.
07:58But Glenn was helping her and Sabina stayed the night.
08:12In 2008, I was working at the Royal Infirmary in Stoke in the A&E department as a nursing assistant,
08:20which is why Glenn rang me and told me that he's got this Swedish woman at his and told me,
08:28you know, she's got nowhere to go, so I'd better stay here. And she's got a sister who's in the hospital,
08:35her in a Peter Carson. When I rang Glenn back, I said, I've found out that she's been admitted,
08:44being operated on, and that's all they can tell me. And that's what I told Glenn. And I said,
08:51if you want to lift up there, I'll give you a lift up there.
08:57When he came back and he said, no, she doesn't want to go. I said, oh, okay. Well, if you change your mind,
09:03let me know, but I'll give you a lift up. And that was that.
09:13If I'd have known the story about the M6, I could have warned Glenn that what she's told you
09:19isn't what happened. Oh, Jesus. Yeah, I could have warned him. Time goes through straight.
09:28What's going to happen to you? She's very dangerous. Careful.
09:31After Sabina stayed the night in Glenn's home, people in the local area saw Sabina and saw Glenn
09:56in the house or through the window. And at one point, Glenn gave one of them a thumbs up.
10:04Sabina asked Glenn for a cup of tea. He was caught sure because he didn't have any
10:09tea to give her. So he went to a neighbor to see if he could borrow a tea bag.
10:16I think I went to fast for some tea bags. And I said to him, whenever he's washing the van,
10:20I'll get you something. Glenn was just trying to make a cup of tea for Sabina.
10:29That's when everything kicked off. Neither Glenn or Sabina ever got to drink their cups of tea.
10:35It turns out that Glenn had gone inside the house after speaking with his neighbor. And
10:45using his kitchen knife, Sabina attacked Glenn, stabbed him three times in the chest.
10:51And one time in the throat. She stabbed me. She stabbed me. And they said,
11:01yeah, look after me, dog. I said, I'm going to just come in now.
11:06I said, yeah, I'll look after you dog for you.
11:07Sabina fled the scene at the house and was acting in a very erratic manner. She had somehow got hold of
11:19a hammer. The good Samaritan stopped and tried to help her. Well, as we were pulling up to the exit
11:26onto the roundabout, I just glanced and saw a woman in the corner of my eye. I looked again and saw her
11:34smashing herself on the head with a hammer. I just felt a sickening feeling in my stomach and
11:41I do remember seeing lots of blood on her head and it was proper tunnel vision. And I was just
11:46completely like zoned in on the hammer. Just put my hands straight on the hammer and lowered it. She
11:52hit me on the back of the head with something. The last thing I saw was a run across the roundabout
12:00the road followed by two paramedics. The paramedics from Staffordshire
12:06Ambulance Service had been called to a stabbing incident and the crew, as they were going en route,
12:11came across an individual who had been hitting her head with a hammer. Quite concerned about her
12:18safety. The hangers stopped to try and help. Paramedics saw Sabina as she then made her way to a high row
12:28bridge nearby. She's got nowhere to go. So instead of handing herself in, Sabina jumps from the bridge
12:36on the road. The paramedics who were going to the stabbing are now dealing with the scene on the A50.
12:50And when I approached the incident, I was quite surprised it was actually the same
12:55lady that we'd attended to on the motorway.
13:07She jumped a distance from approximately 30 foot onto a hard road surface.
13:15She appeared to have sustained a head injury and also an injury to a leg. When I approached her,
13:20she was actually conscious, but she was quite aggressive, abusive, shouting and screaming.
13:26Very similar to her presentation when I'd come across her on the motorway.
13:32I did an initial assessment of Sabina, determined there was no obvious life-threatening injuries.
13:38The paramedic crew that were on scene were obviously managing her. And then I was aware of the
13:43stabbing incidents in the locality. So I left the scene.
13:56As I approached the scene, there were a number of police officers there. One of the police officers
14:01waved me down and advised me to stop. And I was basically told that life was extinct. This was now a crime scene.
14:13I was working at the daily newspaper in Stoke at that time, the Sentinel.
14:24And I found out there'd been a stabbing in Duke Street.
14:30So I traveled to the scene to speak to some neighbors and get some more information about what happened.
14:37And they told me Glenn came out of the house severely injured. He had been stabbed.
14:45He told his neighbor he had been stabbed.
14:48And she stabbed me, she stabbed me. And then the other girl went, that was it. I've seen nobody die before.
15:01It was a very brutal stabbing of an innocent man in his home.
15:05The day after I'd spoken to Glenn, I went up to the corner shop to get a packet of cigarettes.
15:21On the counter was the Sentinel newspaper. And I looked and I thought, I'll recognize that picture.
15:26That's Glenn's house. It was cordoned off. And I thought, what's going on here?
15:36And I don't think I've even bothered reading it.
15:40So I went back to my car, drove down there, parked up. And the policeman says,
15:46Oi, you can't park there. You'll have to move that car.
15:49Well, I said, well, your brother lives here. All right. Uh, yeah. Can you just stay here?
15:58I'll get someone to come and talk to you. I waited and waited. No one was coming.
16:04And eventually they came up to the house. I had to inform the rest of the family.
16:11You know, it's hard to say to somebody, you know, your brother's dead.
16:19But it still gets to be there.
16:28Still find it hard to talk about.
16:33After I finished work, I was asked by my wife, in an urgent way, to phone Paul, my brother.
16:50He just told me that Glenn had died.
17:01And then obviously it opens up a whole barrage of questions.
17:06Trying to piece the whole thing together in your mind is pretty difficult.
17:12But my whole focus was being concerned with my mother.
17:15I couldn't tell her. I took it. My neighbour to tell her. I couldn't get the words out.
17:21She couldn't take it in. You know, she couldn't believe it.
17:26My mum, she just kept saying, what? Glenn's dead?
17:32And I thought, sorry, I'm getting upset now.
17:35I've still got to get over it. They weren't bothered to inform us.
17:44So I thought the first thing the police did in a thing like that is inform the family.
17:49And to read it in the papers wasn't very nice at all.
17:53In the immediate aftermath of the stabbing, it was a very confusing picture.
18:03We were trying to piece together.
18:08It's a shocking moment when you realise the relationship between the M6 and the stabbing and the A50.
18:14What's going to happen to you, do you?
18:16Fucking hell!
18:18Calm down, calm down, calm down, calm down.
18:21After she jumped onto the A50, she was transported to the emergency department at Royal Stoke University Hospital.
18:28With a head injury and quite significant leg injuries, she appeared to have sustained an ankle fracture.
18:40While Sabine Erickson was in hospital, she was arrested for the murder of Glenn Hollinshead.
18:50I was instructed by the Staffordshire branch of the Crown Prosecution Service to prosecute Sabine Erickson for the murder of Glenn Hollinshead.
19:11After Sabine Erickson jumped off the bridge, she remained in hospital until the 11th of September of 2008,
19:24receiving treatment for her serious leg injuries and a wound to the abdomen.
19:33And the doctor who examined her formed the view that the wound had been caused
19:39caused by a sharp object such as a knife.
19:47So this raised the possibility that Sabine had been stabbed.
19:51The question then was, by whom?
19:55Was it by Glenn Hollinshead?
20:03Glenn tended to be a little bit rebellious.
20:07I would say he did not like authority.
20:09He was always looking for direction.
20:13He tended not to have a clear purpose in life.
20:17He was focused on drinking.
20:19He used to drink a lot.
20:20He always has.
20:23At one point, he did lose his way.
20:27So I don't know what it was with his smoking.
20:30You know, he was asking for more money and stuff like that.
20:35And I got to the point where I said, I can't do this anymore.
20:39End off, you know.
20:41And then he went on a methadone program.
20:46Now, I used to say to Glenn, be careful who you play with,
20:51because he had some characters in his life that I wouldn't have entertained.
20:57But that was his nature.
21:00It was irrefutable that Sabine Erickson's hand had held the knife with which Glenn Hollinshead had been stabbed.
21:16But did she act in self-defense?
21:20What was her state of mind at the time that the stabbing took place?
21:25The defense indicated that they would instruct a psychiatrist to examine Sabine.
21:37They said she was suffering from polioderm.
21:41And apparently it's a condition where you can catch a mental illness of somebody.
21:46You know, how can someone catch a mental illness?
22:00In the days and weeks leading up to the trial, I looked through all the evidence.
22:07And one of the extraordinary features of the case was in relation to the incident on the M6.
22:15It was an example of quite extraordinarily bizarre behavior by Sabine and Ursula Erickson.
22:29I recognize you. I know you're not real.
22:32Stay still for me. Stay still, because you're hurt.
22:34Come on, come back.
22:35That's for you.
22:36I'm not real.
22:37I'm not real.
22:38I'm not real.
22:39I'm not real.
22:40I'm not real.
22:41I'm not real.
22:42Understandably, there were suspicions that the twins had been high on drugs or under the influence of something.
22:50Yeah, of course, yeah.
22:52Yeah, of course, yeah.
22:54Jesus Christ.
22:55I watched her go under.
22:56Oh dear.
22:57The arctic.
22:58Yeah, she ran off from us.
23:01They're both, they're both high.
23:03High as high.
23:04Yeah, very.
23:05The other ones just fought us.
23:09Both Sabine and Ursula provided blood samples.
23:14And in both their cases, the samples were negative for the presence of
23:20drugs, both lawful and unlawful.
23:24And for alcohol.
23:25It's going to be a big investigation about this.
23:27Where are you from?
23:30Are they Irish?
23:31Swedish.
23:32Swedish.
23:32Two or five, one over six, that's the camera.
23:34Stop, stop it.
23:36Fucking asshole.
23:37Who's an Irishman?
23:37Calm down.
23:38Fucking bitch, you are.
23:39Yeah.
23:40I'm going to make sure I don't want to get to work.
23:42Fuck you guys, fuck you.
23:44Fuck you guys, fuck you.
23:45Fuck you.
23:46Fuck you.
23:49Three days later, Sabine jumped from the parapet of the A50.
23:57Again, she was negative for drugs and alcohol.
24:02Her behavior was bizarre.
24:07So it was inevitable.
24:09Sabine Erickson's mental state at the time of the killing might well be an issue in the case.
24:17The defense instructs a psychiatrist to examine Sabine.
24:26It's absolutely usual, if a defendant produces a report, that the prosecution will also obtain a report.
24:34In 2009, I was instructed as a consultant psychiatrist to prepare a forensic psychiatric report in the case of Sabine Erickson.
24:50Do you suffer any mental health problems or from depression?
24:53The defense expert felt Sabine was in fact suffering from a serious mental health issue.
25:13And that Sabine Erickson's behavior was due to the presence and the influence of her sister.
25:21And their diagnosis was folia due, a French term meaning the madness of two.
25:33Folia due is a very rare psychiatric condition.
25:37Typically, it happens when the two people involved spend quite a possible time together and are highly isolated.
25:44One person would have what we call the primary diagnosis of a true mental illness.
25:53And then because of their intimacy, they could convince that other person to think just as they were thinking.
26:01It's almost as if you would consider it being contagious.
26:04In the case of these sisters, there was an indication that Ursula was the primary patient.
26:16Folia due seemed to be a very convenient diagnosis of what was going on between Sabine and the sister.
26:23No, I don't believe there's any woo-woo type mysticism where one girl is transferring her thoughts to another girl, even though twins are very close.
26:35Just please check out how it is, please be the last sister.
26:39I'll ask the subject.
26:40Okay, no problem.
26:41All right.
26:42There's now quite a lot of evidence which shows that folia due does happen because it's been recorded.
26:53It's possible for two people to share the same delusion, but it's extremely rare.
26:58And that's what makes this case very interesting.
27:03There were two diagnoses, one by each of the medical experts.
27:08I wanted to meet with Ms. Erickson.
27:13I'm curious to know what was happening in the weeks, days, hours, and even in the minutes leading up to the event.
27:23Because prior to meeting with her sister, there is no evidence of any previous issue with mental health.
27:38Conversations with people who grew up with the twins in Sweden have revealed what their childhoods were like.
27:55The twins grew up with an older brother and sister.
28:02Their fathers disabled with only one arm and had problems with alcohol.
28:06Their mother was believed to have challenges of her own.
28:15The children were generally left to their own devices.
28:18School friends remember Ursula having a cleft palate that disfigured and scarred her entire face from the forehead down.
28:25And was bullied for her disfigurement.
28:28The twins had an extremely close relationship with each other, but didn't spend time with other friends.
28:34Sabina and Ursula decided they would have a better life if they left Sweden.
28:43There are so many unanswered questions around this case.
28:47When they arrived in Liverpool, they spoke to police to raise some concerns about the safety of Sabina's sons.
28:58Police, we understand at that stage, actually made contact with her partner back in court.
29:04And discovered that he was concerned about Sabina's safety and there was nothing to cause alarm with their two sons.
29:16But why did they travel to Liverpool?
29:18Why were they so worried about Sabina's children's safety back in Ireland?
29:28When they stopped at Cale's services, why would they not put their bags back in the hold of the coach?
29:35Why were they both trying to run in front of traffic on the M6?
29:44Mike Alpha, we need the lot here now.
29:47Yes, I want you to stay there.
29:48Yes, I want you to stay there.
29:49Yes, it's OK.
29:50Yes, I want you to stay there.
29:51Yes, I want you to stay there.
29:52Yes, I want you to stay there.
29:53Yes, I want you to stay there.
29:54What was causing this extreme behaviour?
29:59And indeed, the day after, the questions continued.
30:05It's inevitable when people are interested in something, their minds try and piece together the confusion of it all.
30:16In today's podcast, we are going to delve deep into the story and the crimes of sisters Ursula and Sabina Erickson.
30:25Oh my God, this case, it's giving me a headache.
30:27I think the case of Sabina and Ursula Erickson has captured people's imagination in part because of the lack of official information that's available to the public.
30:36And where information is missing, conspiracy theorists will rush in.
30:40Once the news coverage of this story caught the interest of social media,
30:45it just snowballed.
30:47And various colourful opinions about what happened took on a life of their own.
30:53So let's quickly talk about some theories, shall we?
30:55I'll tell you what I thought. I thought it was drugs.
30:57Conspiracy theories suggest Sabina and Ursula had either taken or been given PCP.
31:02It is an illegal drug that can cause hallucinations, paranoia and the belief that one has superhuman strength.
31:09Often, PCP is laced in cigarettes.
31:11So this theory definitely seemed plausible because it could explain why Sabina was concerned about Glenn and Peter smoking her cigarettes.
31:19However, PCP is one of the drugs the police test for.
31:23So this isn't something that would have been missed during their examination.
31:26There was also a theory that the twins were drug smugglers.
31:41The reason for this theory is just the way that they were kind of acting with their bags on the coach,
31:47how they were like clutching them and just acting really weird.
31:50And the twins had multiple mobile phones with them that could support the fact that they were drug smugglers.
31:56There were no drugs found in their system and no drugs or drug paraphernalia found in their bags.
32:02There are theories out there, but we can't prove any of this because it is purely speculation.
32:12What on earth happened in Glenn Hollenshead's house?
32:16I made an appointment to meet with Miss Erickson.
32:31I felt that I did not have enough information to do a comprehensive diagnosis.
32:40Prior to what had happened to Mr. Hollenshead, it seemed that she was having persecutory delusions,
32:54hearing voices, thoughts that she was in danger.
32:59And this was made clear to her by Ursula.
33:04And that is when she was convinced that they needed to seek refuge.
33:10Apparently, they were walking down Central Asia kissing.
33:19They considered escaping together one way or the other like a pact.
33:28What was said to me by Miss Erickson was that they were both convinced that they had to act in this way.
33:37And that by dying together, that would be one way of escaping whatever perceived danger that they had imagined.
33:47After the incident, it appeared that Sabina continued suffering from a paranoid delusion, thinking that someone is out to harm her.
34:10When Mr. Hollenshead went out to speak to his neighbor, it is possible that she might have felt they were plotting in some way.
34:25If she was having persecutory delusions, it would give her a sense of fear, a feeling that she needed to escape to protect herself and also to protect her sister.
34:41I was able to understand more about what her life was like.
34:49Sabina and her sister Ursula, they led a fairly frugal existence in Sweden.
34:59And there was some insinuation of difficulties within the household, although there was no overt sign of mental health difficulties.
35:15Sabina and Ursula both had a shared traumatic childhood.
35:23We know now that people who've had some type of adverse experience, particularly some kind of trauma in their childhood,
35:31are much more likely than other people to develop a form of severe mental illness, some form of psychosis or another.
35:38There were two diagnoses.
35:45The defense believed that it was polyadure.
35:50But in my opinion, she was suffering from acute polymorphic psychotic disorder.
35:57Where the person's mind simply takes leave of reality.
36:06It could have lasted days.
36:09And the presence and influence of her sister was more the final straw that caused her to have a psychotic break.
36:20In the end, it did not matter who made what diagnosis.
36:27The important thing was whether we felt that she was operating under the influence of a mental disorder.
36:35At the time of the incident, the conclusions of both experts were the same.
36:43Dr. McDaniel's report was only available at lunchtime on the day that the trial was due to commence.
36:59We discovered that she too had come to the conclusion that Sabina's responsibility was substantially diminished by her mental state at the time of the killing.
37:12We would accept the plea only if any suggestion of self-defense was abandoned.
37:23Right, stay with me.
37:25I can't see any reason why Glenn would stab her.
37:29I don't think you're going to make someone a cup of tea and then just turn around and stab them.
37:34If Glenn had seen Sabina trying to harm herself in any way, he would have tried to prevent it.
37:43It's how he is. He wouldn't just stand there and watch.
37:45What are you filming for?
37:46Calm down.
37:47What are you filming for?
37:48Calm down.
37:49Sabina, for whatever reason, was quite happy to place herself at serious risk of harm.
37:56And when anybody tried to stop her, she was prepared to resist violently.
38:02Watch it, guys. Watch it down.
38:04Legs down. Legs down.
38:07It seemed to me that the overwhelmingly probable inference was that Sabina was in the process of using the knife to injure herself.
38:19When Glenn Hollingshead came back into his house, that he tried to stop her and that she took possession of the knife and stabbed him.
38:33The defense considered their position overnight.
38:38There were various court hearings. Most of them seemed to be adjourned.
38:55We'll see. It's been a long time coming, but we'll see what happens.
38:59And then, finally, there was the trial.
39:02We were there as brothers, waiting to see what was going to happen.
39:06Sabina's change of plea made headlines.
39:10And I remember it being reported prominently on BBC News.
39:15Tonight, a Swedish woman who ran into the path of oncoming traffic on the M6 motorway and later killed a man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
39:24The judge's sentence had been after five years, minus the time she had served on remand.
39:36I was disappointed with the sentence that was passed down.
39:43But I don't think it would bring Glenn back, no matter how long she got in prison.
39:48In my eyes, it should have been preventable. After what she'd gone through on the M6, being knocked unconscious, then waking up and fighting with police people, trying to run into other traffic on the M6.
40:06Now, to me, that is not normal behaviour. And there was a mention of 136 under the Mental Health Act.
40:31How should she be arrested?
40:32Well, 136 if she is.
40:33Well, she needs to be, if nothing else, for going on the carriageway and for her own safety.
40:38One of the policemen that was there said that she should be sectioned.
40:44They could have kept her under observation. They could have brought in psychologists, psychiatrists.
40:50I don't hold Sabina responsible, although she physically was responsible for my brother's death.
40:56I think that the police are far more culpable.
41:00Sabina, I don't have any malice against.
41:03In the case of Miss Erickson, she showed intermittent signs of psychosis.
41:16Sabina, come and sit in the car.
41:18There were times when she acted bizarrely and there were times when she acted normally.
41:24What job are you doing over?
41:26Oh, I just found a crappy job.
41:29But because of the fluctuating nature of the illness, then things sort of slipped through the net.
41:37The police had no way of telling exactly what was going to happen next.
41:49I think in the moment they probably thought they were doing the right thing by Sabina.
41:55But there are lessons to be learned from this.
42:00I think the world is a good thing.
42:29I think the world has moved on in terms of our understanding of mental health conditions and our awareness of it.
42:42We need to foster a better understanding of what these disorders are.
42:48And the fact that there's not two species of people, the sane and the insane.
42:54But that we're all to some extent on that spectrum.
42:58And the earlier we can intervene, the sooner we can get to people who are developing psychotic symptoms, then the more likely we are to be able to prevent the tragic deaths of people like Glenn Hollinshead.
43:11My mother was never the same. Glenn, I think, was the apple of her eye. It broke her heart. And she ended up falling apart.
43:25I still picture him laughing and joking with me. Yeah, I miss him. Oh God, do I ever. I miss him.
43:37I miss him. I miss him. My heart. I miss him. I miss him.
43:53¶¶
44:23If you or someone you know has been affected by any of the issues raised in tonight's programme,
44:51please go to channel5.com slash helplines for information and support.
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45:04Next tonight, Police Interceptors.
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