THE families of four killers raised concerns in the days before they committed the brutal acts, The Argus today reveals.
Mental health services in Sussex are reviewing ten homicides linked to patients in their care following the conviction of Matthew Daley for the manslaughter of Don Lock this week.
Yesterday The Argus exclusively reported Daley's mother had called the trust the day before her son stabbed the 79-year-old 39 times but her concerns were not passed on - prompting the review of ten previous cases.
And today we can reveal that in at least four of those cases family members had expressed explicit concerns about the killers' behaviour to their mental health workers and police.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which runs mental health services across the county, yesterday promised to listen more to families in future.
But Daley's case bears chilling similarities to previous cases amid concerns of history repeating itself.
Just as Matthew Daley's family feared there would be a fatality at his hands, Roger Goswell's daughter urged health officials not to discharge him from hospital.
His wife Susan called the police to report that he had threatened to kill her. Just three days later he did.
Her blood-soaked body was found at their home in West Chiltington as opera music played and a note to the police was left on the door.
Goswell then took his own life.
Before the incident he had told a nurse at the Sussex Partnership-run Harold Kidd unit in Chichester that he planned to kill his wife and himself.
In graphic detail he said he would use the foot board from his bed to bludgeon her, then stab her with a glass bottle he had in his room.
But when he was transferred to the Priory in Hove his medical notes omitted important information about the threats to kill.
David Sole - who beat Jon Ellison to death with a rounders bat in Gloucester Street Brighton - is today for the first time revealed to have had previous dealings with mental health services.
In the month before the murder his foster mother wrote to social workers saying "he desperately needs the right treatment".
Graeme Morris travelled from Hove to Scotland where he attacked his parents, killing his mother.
But in the weeks leading up to the murder Morris's former girlfriend Emma Russell had been worried about his increasingly strange behaviour during the months leading up to the attack.
She contacted a doctor and Morris was put on a waiting list to see a psychiatrist.
Naomi Lewis, who's brother Joe was murdered on Christmas Day by Oliver Parsons , said the authorities were not acting to prevent those with mental health problems from killing.
She said: "We had a letter of apology from the NHS but what is the point in apologising if you're not doing anything to stop it.
"It doesn't look like they are learning anything and history keeps repeating itself."
Emma Wadey, Sussex Partnership's director of nursing standards and safety told The Argus that the reason for the new review was to "take a step back" and look at the wider picture" to make improvements to care, but insisted that changes had been made to correct failings identified in previous cases.
She said: "This is an opportunity to listen to families.
"For us as clinicians and professionals we need to make sure we are getting the whole story.
"We need to make sure we haven't left any stone unturned.
"We understand that there is still public concern.
"Certainly one area of the review will be looking at actions taken at the time and lessons to be learned and were there other issues that we missed."
Ms Wadey promised the review - which has been commissioned jointly by the trust and NHS England - would be conducted swiftly to make sure changes are introduced as soon as possible.
TEN CASES TO BE REVIEWED FOLLOWING CONVICTION OF DON LOCK KILLER
Paranoid schizophrenic Kayden Smith stabbed to death Jen Jenson in August 2012 after meeting him at Langley Green Hospital in Crawley – another Sussex Partnership acute mental health unit.
Smith, 28, of Belmont Close, Hassocks, had a history of paranoid delusions, amphetamine abuse and knife possession, and was suffering “severe psychosis” at the time of the killing.
A judge ruled he posed a “high risk of violence”.
Matthew Daley
Matthew Daley’s mother Lynda called mental health services worried about him on July 15 last year and a worker made a note to tell police two days later. The next day the 35-year-old stabbed Don Lock 39 times at the side of the road.
Daley was yesterday cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility due to his mental health problems.
Stefan Welch was beaten over the head by Sean Iran at his family’s home in Portslade on September 3, 2009.
Iran then enlisted the help of his father Babak, and older brother Navid, to take his body to the Dyke Road golf course and set it on fire.
David Sole
Detectives described the injuries David Sole inflicted on Jon Ellison as the “most violent” they had ever seen.
Sole beat street drinker Mr Ellison with a rounders bat at his home on Gloucester Street, Brighton, on April 14, 2011.
Oliver Parsons
Joe Lewis was stabbed to death by Oliver Parsons when he was high on a cocktail of lager, vodka, whiskey, the legal high Euphoria, cannabis and Mephedrone on Christmas morning in 2014.
Parsons had paranoid schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and other personality disorders and judge Shani Barnes described it as a “disaster waiting to happen”.
Graeme Morris
In August 2012 Graeme Morris travelled from his home in Hove to Troon in Scotland unannounced then battered his father Fred and killed his mother Anne believing they had abused him as a child.
A former girlfriend who was worried about his increasingly strange behaviour during the months leading up to the attack contacted a doctor and Morris had been put on a waiting list to see a psychiatrist.
For the first time Shane Noble, a trained boxer who beat shop manager Chris Poole to death in a brutal attack in Eastbourne in 2012, has been revealed as having had previous dealings with mental health services in Sussex.
A review is underway.
Roger Goswell
In December 2007 Goswell stabbed wife Susan to death at their home in West Chiltington, then killed himself in a car crash.
His wife told police he had threatened to kill her just days earlier. Her children Joseph and Sarah had both made warnings about his aggressive behaviour.
Paranoid schizophrenic Steven Dunne, 42, stabbed Gordon Stalker to death on the doorstep of his home in Elm Grove in 2010 while in the grip of psychosis, believing his friend was a witch. A year later, having been detained for manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility he walked out of Sussex Partnership-run Hellingly hospital.
Christopher Jeffrey-Shaw, 26, from Lewisham in south east London, was convicted of manslaughter after student Janet Muller was found burnt alive in the boot of his hire car at the back of a golf club near Crawley.
She had climbed over a garden wall to escape from Mill View mental health hospital run by the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, having already walked out through reception the same day.
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