Winston Williams , the youngest of five children, born in 1945, grew up in Jamaica where all the rest of his family stayed. He left school without academic qualifications. He obtained learning experience as a motor mechanic for two years and welding and this skill got him work in England from time to time in garages and breakup vehicle work. He came to England aged nineteen to follow a girlfriend whom he then married in 1964, a marriage which lasted four years A next relationship produced a son. A year later he married someone else, there arriving a son and daughter. He kept sometimes in touch with the daughter.
His illness began as a detained hospital patient in 1972, the early signs being noticed and reported by his second wife.
He just left the hospital and lost touch with mental health services for four years.
Several threatening offences followed, one with threats to an ex-employer was recognised as an expression of schizophrenia by a Court, and he went to Broadmoor Special hospital, by the time he got there already stabilised with medication.
An attempt to send him to Jamaica failed.
Released with Home Office conditions after three years to an aftercare forensic Unit in the Midlands, he then found a place in a charity (Richmond Fellowship) Hostel in Reading, where he received supervision from nearby Broadmoor hospital. It is in Reading that he becomes acquainted with the family whose daughter is the eventual victim in 1999, fourteen years into the future.
The Inquiry Report states that his return to his own neighbourhood in North London was successfully opposed by local Members of parliament.
He never settled down in Reading, eventually stopping his medication and relapsed.
He rejoined his second wife in London, and continued very disturbed and erratic in behaviour. That led to his being returned to Broadmoor on Home office 'recall'. He was there for another four years, again it being felt better if he returned to Jamaica and to family involvement, but again the move never came about.
Instead he is re-established under community forensic care in a residential Forensic Clinic and subsequently re-settled in Reading. He is at the same address for eight years, interspersed with three short admissions to the Residential Clinic.
During his continuing thirty year illness of schizophrenia he never established a regularised life that he could return to when well, with a regular job or supportive living. His room base was always a mess and he was not often there. He kept up regular relationships with three girl friends who knew nothing of each other, and maybe with others less persistently.
His source of income was never clear, although he claimed benefits and worked intermittently at the same time.
There was always doubt that he was dealing in drugs, and maybe around prostitution.
This conclusion was adopted by the police.
He was known to carry a knife.
His social nexus was never penetrated by the professional mental health team.
Its clear he never achieved respectable living which gave him an orderly and reliable social context, with a future attached to regular companionship either at work or in his neighbourhood, with people who might be concerned enough to report about him. What members of his family of origen were available is not clear in this Report.
Even though his illness was helped by depot medication, it never saw him settled down .
He disarranged all attempts to exercise authority over him other than that he allowed as a compromise.
He remained in contact with the mental health service but rather upon his own terms.
The first Home Office recall to a Special Hospital was followed by compliance with depot modecate at a low level over four years.
The second to a local Clinic was not so successful.
Before the final tragedy he had missed some depot appointments and the depot regime was low in any case.
His daily pattern of living was never made clear. There were no reliable neighbourhood informants who were concerned about his ways. When one did report him as a danger, the response was not able to prevent him killing her daughter two years later in 1999.
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