00:29As one has heard, a man with severe mental illness was known to services and assessed
00:34by consultant psychiatrists as psychologically stable and safe for the community.
00:40At the same time, he was engaging in escalating behaviour outside those assessments, including
00:49acquiring weapons and researching extreme violence, behaviour that ultimately mirrored
00:55the violence he later carried out.
00:58That disconnect is hard to accept.
01:03It raises serious questions about how risk is assessed and about whether current models
01:09are equipped to detect danger that develops beyond the spoken words of the consulting room.
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