Health services should have identified risk of double murderer reoffending

Report says there were ‘many deficiencies and missed opportunities’ in the treatment of James Allen, who murdered two people in 2012

Health services that dealt with a man later convicted of murdering two people should have identified the “significant probability that he would reoffend”, a report has found.

James Allen attacked 81-year-old Colin Dunford in his Middlesbrough terrace home, then three days later stabbed to death Julie Davison, 50, at her flat in Whitby, North Yorkshire.

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