The contact details for The Zito Trust are:

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The contact details for The Zito Trust are:

E-mail: zitotrust@...

Telephone: 01497 820011

Address: 16 Castle Street, Hay-on-Wye, Hereford HR3 5DF

> > > > From: jeremy9282 <jeremybryce1953@ ...>> > Subject: (UK) Shizophrenic' s kill "a person a week"> ..i.e 52 per year> > SSRI medications> > Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 4:58 AM> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > SCHIZOPHRENICS KILL `A PERSON A WEEK' > > > > > > > > > > Lucy Yates was badly hurt in store stabbing > > > > Sunday October 12,2008 > > > > By Kirsty Buchanan > > > > PARANOID schizophrenics stab to death at least one person every week> because of mental healthcare failures, shocking new figures reveal. > > > > > > Far from being a rare event, as some argued, murders by patients who> have stopped their medication or been released from hospital too early> are running at 50 to 70 a year in England. /[>> > > > /[> > > The death toll has tripled in 20 years as more schizophrenics are> left with the responsibility for taking their own anti-psychotic> drugs. /[>> > > > /[> > > The care in the community failure is behind new Government orders> that will allow doctors to force patients to take their medication –> or face being sectioned again. /[>> > > > /[> > > Mental health charities fought against Community Treatment Orders,> dubbing them as mental health Asbos. /[>> > > > /[> > > They say patients will be stigmatised by the orders, effective from> November 3. /[>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > SEARCH UK NEWS for: > > > > > > > > /[> > > Howlett, director of The Zito Trust, warned yesterday that> political correctness threatened to be taken more seriously than the> public's safety. /[>> > > > /[> > > He said: "It is dangerous to underestimate the dangers a few> individuals can pose if they are left untreated. /[>> > > > /[> > > "Organisations like the Mental Health Alliance underestimate the> dangers because they don't work with the families of the victims." /[>> > > > /[> > > The Zito Trust was set up after musician Zito, aged 27, was> stabbed to death by schizophrenic Clunis after he was> released into the community in 1992. Most schizophrenics are not> violent, and 2,000 a year commit suicide. /[>> > > > /[> > > But Mr Howlett said: "These attacks are so random and horrifying. /[>> > > > /[> > > "The victims are not just stabbed once or twice, we are talking> about a frenzied attack. /[>> > > > /[> > > "The mental health field is focused on human rights. /[>> > > > /[> > > "We hear all the time this argument that fatalities are rare but we> are talking about 50 to 70 deaths a year. I don't think that is rare> at all." /[>> > > > /[> > > Just last month Lucy Yates, 20, was left fighting for her life after> being stabbed 17 times while shopping in a Somerfield supermarket. /[>> > > > /[> > > The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by> People with Mental Illness found five per cent of murders were> committed by schizophrenics. /[>> > > > /[> > > A spokeswoman for mental health charity Mind was unconvinced that> CTOs offered greater protection. /[>> > > > /[> > > She said: "We are concerned they will sweep people into treatment> unnecessarily, and could even scare some away from treatment." /[>> >>