Coroner calls for dangerous psychiatric patients to be monitored

MORDEN

A coroner has called for an improvement in the monitoring of dangerous psychiatric patients after a mentally ill man stabbed a lecturer to death. Mark Loveridge, 39, lay in wait for 30-year-old Daniel Young half an hour after knifing another man in the buttocks. Loveridge, who had been receiving psychiatric care since he was 21, plunged a knife into Mr Young’s stomach and left him to bleed to death near Morden Tube station in south London. Loveridge had not been…

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