Doctors 'could not have prevented' man killing friend after discharge

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Doctors 'could not have prevented' man killing friend after discharge
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An inquiry clears doctors of blame after a man killed a friend days after walking out of a psychiatric hospital.

A sheriff has cleared doctors of any blame in the case of a man who killed his best friend two days after walking out of a psychiatric hospital.

Reid, 48, was sent to the State Hospital at Carstairs for stabbing Mr Johnston 120 times in October 2017. She wrote: "It is not clear why David Reid's mental state deteriorated after his departure from Royal Cornhill Hospital but that was not due to any failings on the part of the medical professionals who worked with him, nor the system within which they worked."

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