Example of the cross over between broken criminal justice system and broken healthcare system: defendant clearly mentally unwell. Caught on camera assaulting a police officer whilst unwell. Remanded in custody and case committed to Crown Court as cannot effectively take part in
Mode of trial procedure. Put straight into healrhcare wing of prison. Long delays for prison visits over the summer. Several weeks pass by until a video link becomes available. Client too unwell to understand why he's in prison or our role as legal reps. Walks out of visit.
Several weeks pass with prison refusing to tell us any info re his mental health background without authority. Catch 22 situation. Listed for PTPH. August - Prison indicates assessed, accepted for a bed in hospital. 2 months later. Still in prison healthcare as there has been
No available bed for his admission over 2 months later. Defendant has now served equivalent of highest likely sentence for this offence. CPS refuse to review without medical evidence. We can't get the medical evidence. So mentally unwell person now stuck in prison because
Of lack of funding in our basic healthcare and justice systems and a massive load of red tape. This is an "elected" case as well so we will get the grand total of £330 fixed fee to sort out this mess. Have spent more time than this total fixed fee just making calls today
Everybody involved in this being let down and taken advantage of. When solicitors pull out of this sort of loss leading work there will be nobody to push to sort out stalemate situations like this, which are more common than you would think #thelawisbroken
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