Psychiatrist who let schizophrenic out to kill wants £300,000 payout
June 28, 2008 Hospital, News, Psychiatrist No CommentsBy Fiona Barton
Last updated at 11:51 PM on 27th June 2008
A psychiatrist who released a mental patient who then stabbed a retired banker to death is suing for compensation.
Consultant Gill Mezey wants more than £300,000 from her employer for damage to her career.
She claims she has lost out financially and been ‘humiliated’ by her bosses, who suspended her on full pay.
Dr Mezey, 50, decided to let paranoid schizophrenic John Barrett out of hospital for an hour’s leave without even seeing him, in September 2004.
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