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09.03.2023 - 07:47 / dailyrecord.co.uk
The murder of a 'Good Samaritan' could have been avoided if his killer had been offered accommodation on leaving hospital, a report has found. Alan Geddes, 56, was killed in December 2019 after he offered a stranger a place to stay for the night in Aberdeen.
Stuart Quinn pleaded guilty to murdering Geddes, on the evening he was released from a psychiatric hospital. He was jailed for a minimum of 18 years in February 2021. The lead-up to the murder was investigated by an anonymised report by the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland.
It revealed that Quinn, referred to in the report as Mr TU, had four relatively brief admissions to a psychiatric hospital when he was 32. The admissions were between March and June 2018, and he was diagnosed with drug-induced psychosis.
On each admission, he presented paranoid delusional beliefs and was detained under the Mental Health Act. He spent most of 2019 in prison, and in December, having been on remand was released with no support package in place and no accommodation.
The report revealed that if he would have been offered accommodation, there would have been a lower risk to the victim. It said: "The investigation concluded that following Mr TU's unexpected release from prison in December 2019, although a support package and accommodation may have reduced the likelihood of further offending, evidence from a planned liberation in September 2019 indicated that even with a comprehensive support package in place and with accommodation provided, Mr TU rapidly re-offended, was rearrested and returned to prison.
"However, if Mr TU had been offered accommodation in December 2019 this is likely to have reduced the risk to the specific victim who invited him to his home because of his lack of
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