00:01This review is looking into how two people
00:04absconded from this facility Cumberland Hospital within the span of 24 hours
00:09and allegedly went on to kill three people in two separate incidents one of
00:13those incidents was on Tuesday in which a 25 year old man allegedly stabbed three
00:18people injured two killing another and it's been revealed that he had been in
00:24this facility and absconded while being transferred to another facility that was
00:29about a week before that incident and in the other separate incident a 31 year
00:35old man allegedly was involved in a car pursuit from southern Sydney to
00:39southwestern Sydney in the Camden area in which he crashed into and killed two
00:45women now it's been revealed that that 31 year old had also been at this
00:50facility a week earlier and he escaped after having allegedly threatened a
00:55nurse and taking an access pass so this review is going to look into how these
01:01two people absconded and why if the police could bring them back in whether they
01:06could and why they didn't bring him bring them back in instead going on to
01:10allegedly commit those acts of crime Gavin they've long been concerns about the
01:15state of the mental health system in New South Wales what's the state government
01:19said it's going to do well as this comes almost two years after the Bondi
01:25Junction mass stabbing in which six people were killed and that brought a lot
01:29of scrutiny on to the New South Wales mental health system and and how the
01:34system treats people with psychiatric illnesses recently that inquiry there was a
01:40coronary inquiry which handed down 23 recommendations and found that this is
01:45really a fragmented under resourced and under pressure mental health system in
01:50response to that the New South Wales Premier Chris Minns has said this is a
01:54system he's confirmed it is a system under pressure and that they're keen to
01:57act on those recommendations and fix some of those systemic flaws but that in
02:02order to recommend all of those recommendations will take some time here's
02:06what he had to say this morning I think broadly speaking New South Wales
02:11health is treating more people with psychiatric illnesses even violent
02:16psychiatric illnesses than ever before and the vast majority of those cases end
02:21up with you know the community safe the individual getting help that they need but
02:26this one has gone badly wrong and we need to make sure that we're learning the
02:31lessons from it it would be unfair to say it's been ignored it wouldn't be
02:35correct to say that we haven't put extra funding in we are putting enormous
02:38resources in more than ever before a massive increase in that sector of the
02:43the health spend but you know we can always do it better
02:51New South Wales Premier Chris Minns there saying that they have put hundreds of
02:55millions of dollars into the New South Wales mental health system and saying it
02:59in most cases the vast majority of cases people are kept safely and treated
03:03properly but he said in the case of these two recent incidents in which two
03:07people escaped this should not have happened and he said he feels deeply
03:11concerned and also terrible for the family of those people affected by these
03:15alleged crimes he said that the review will look into how this has happened and
03:20that the government will act upon that as soon as it's handed down
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