16/03/2017 Look East

Hello and welcome to the Look East late news.

In the programme tonight: The man with paranoid schizophrenia

who started a fire which killed this mother and her unborn child.

24 hours in A - we're behind the scenes at Ipswich Hospital.

And a cold start to the day tomorrow. I will have all the

details later. her unborn child in a tower block

fire in Essex has been detained Today, her husband told us he can't

understand how Troisi ended up being anyone's neighbour

without being cared for. It is nearly a year since Khabi

Abree died but on the estate where she lived, her memory lives on. As

does the pain of her loss. This is her killer, Lillo Troisi, a paranoid

schizophrenic who lived below. On May seven last year he bought a can

Khabi Abree's flat. She was found Khabi Abree's flat. She was found

unconscious and died in hospital two days later. Eight months pregnant,

her baby died from a cardiac arrest. The court heard Lillo Troisi was

sciatic and had not been taking medication to control his illness.

His sister had raised concerned about her brother's mental state.

She was told he could not be forced to take his medication. Khabi

Abree's husband Stewart was out that night. The court heard of the

devastating impact it has had on him and the irony that him and his wife

had helped people with mental health problems. I never wanted him to go

to prison as such because I understand his situation working in

mental health. So I don't really have anger for him. It is quite

served. He has been let down as much as any of us. Lillo Troisi was under

the care of the South Essex partnership trust. It declined to be

interviewed. The residents association warns a risk of a

similar tragedy here remains. Mental health issues, alcohol, drugs.

Substance abuse, we seriously have that problem. You feared this case

could be repeated? Very much so. Today Lillo Troisi was held under

the Mental Health Act for killing Khabi Abree and her on-board child.

-- unborn child. Majorie Wallace is the founder

and chief executive of the mental It is a really sickening and

saddening for the unnecessary waste of life and we rather echo Khabi

Abree's husband's comments. It is the basic lack of care and love in

the psychiatric system allowing somebody who has got dangerous

propensities and a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia to be on the

eighth floor of a tower block where he is exposing neighbours to the

symptoms of his illness and that is without the kind of supervision we

would expect. We understand that he had not taken his medication for 18

months. When it comes to that, where there is the responsibility lies? He

was referred to the trust, we cannot believe somebody should go for 18

months without medication with such a diagnosis. You have been working

in this whole field for many years now. In your view, are people living

in the community with serious mental illness worse off now than a decade

ago or better off? Sadly to say I think that while awareness about

and is far higher, the actual front and is far higher, the actual front

line services have deteriorated because there are more people that

we hear about you are living in the community, who may be severely

disturbed who are not receiving the kind of care and supervision they

need and there is a sense really that being a care in the community

is living on a wing on a prayer, that nothing terrible will happen.

A coroner examining the death of an 86-year-old man from Suffolk,

who was sent the wrong medication by a branch of Boots,

said his heart failure was triggered by him not getting

Douglas Lemond, who was registered as blind,

died in hospital in May 2012, two days after the incorrect package

of tablets was delivered to his home in Felixstowe.

Professor Robin Fermat a clinical pharmacologist told the coroner that

he believed the mistakes over the prescription would have hastened the

death of Douglas Lamond. He had a heart attack six weeks after the

tragedy. The wrong delivery of medication said the professor left

him struggling on two fronts- coping with the cessation of his normal

drugs but the effects of the fresh ones. One lowered large sugar levels

releasing adrenaline and that put more strain on the heart. The

inquest was told the Boots branch handled 2500 prescriptions a month.

The dispenser said she had opened and we steeled a package she thought

was for Mr Lamond. It was not company policy by something they did

in an emergency. The label outside board the pensioner's details, the

labels inside did not. Evidence from the pharmacist who has admitted her

regret. Asked today widely extra. Tin drugs had not been put into a

separate bottle, she said that would have caused confusion. Boots

branches were sent a mandatory warning five days after the tragedy.

After the hearing, a friend read a statement on behalf of Mr Lamond's

family. We would urge any person in receipt of medications to check

labels and prescriptions for accuracy because errors happen and

the outcome can be both painful and devastating. They said that only

wish was to ensure no other family went through such a tragedy.

The Conservative Party has been fined for not accurately

reporting its expenses during the Clacton

The Electoral Commission found 360 hotel rooms

were booked for the campaign, but they didn't declare most

of the money they spent, which is against the law.

The Tories, who failed to win the seat, blame

Next tonight, a behind the scenes look at A

The number of people waiting more than four hours at A departments

across the East has nearly trebled over the last three

At midnight last night, a team of reporters from BBC East

went into A at Ipswich Hospital and they will be there

They've been filming on their phones.

Our health reporter Nikki Fox compiled this report.

While most were fast asleep, staff at Ipswich are on another shift.

Yesterday the A department saw 250 patients. Owen has one word for his

weight. His brother told us what happened. We were out, I was

performing and he had come to see me. He left and collapsed. Five and

a half hours later, Owain has been treated. I am knackered. I would not

want to stay here overnight. Another patient has been brought in by

ambulance. I woke my wife and she found 111 and could not get a

response. She then dialled 999 and got a response. Now quite

comfortable and glad I am in the right place. The unit sees at least

a third more patience than it did eight years ago. I sometimes cry and

hide away and think, what have I done? I need to change career. Then

I have my relatives who say, you are meant for this. I have seen sadly

patients waiting in corridors because we have not had the capacity

to move people through. As most patients told us, they were pleased

with how they were treated, but the hospital's chief executive says the

NHS needs to be restructured if it is to be fit for the future.

And we'll be at Ipswich Hospital A department until midnight tonight.

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That's all from me, coming up now the weather with Alex,

Good evening. It will meet a much colder start tomorrow. A weather

front bringing us a lot more cloud and just a splash of rain. Clear

skies following so temperatures as low as two or three Celsius locally.

Just possible there could be a touch of Frost. Tomorrow this weather

system coming in bringing us rain and a freshening breeze coming from

the South West, swinging to a north-westerly direction. A bright

start with good spells of sunshine. It will tend to cloud over so it

will be cooler, temperatures of ten or 11 degrees. This area of rain

coming through into the evening and overnight. Here is the outlook:

Temperatures bounceback for the weekend. A wet start to Saturday,

staying loudly. Mostly dry double figures. Through the weekend

there will be rain around, most occurring overnight.

Good evening, quite a range of whether an offer earlier today in

the north and north-west of the UK quite a lot of showers around,

lively ones, little bit of sunshine in between. The best of the sunshine

to be found at the other end of the country towards the south-east in

Kent, lovely picture here from one of our weather watchers. A range of

temperatures, too. 17 degrees for a few, on the other side of the

weather front, only seven or 8 degrees. Showers in the north and

west. The fresh air will win out over tonight coming in behind the

cold front, which isn't bringing much rain but it will bring