Patient broke out of mental hospital to stab runner

Croydon

A psychiatric patient accused of escaping from a secure hospital then knifing a jogger in a random attack will stand trial in May. Reece Davis, 23, allegedly scrambled through a window at Croydon University Hospital while on escorted leave from Bethlem Road Hospital on 5 May last year. Four days later he launched a frenzied attack on jogger Christian Keki on the corner of Belvedere Road and Hamlet Road in Crystal Palace at about 9.20pm, it is said. Mr Keki,…

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