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< | Leigers had murdered his wife 12 years earlier, and had been sent to Rampton, making a settled improvement and being released.; a retrospective review considering that that tragedy happened during a depressive illness. Subsequently Leigers said he heard the voice of his wife a lot of the time. Otherwise he showed no indication that he suffered from schizophrenia. The panel did not meet the relatives - they declined - nor in the Inquiry Report is there any indication that any of the Psychiatric team saw any. Leigers kept in touch with them, especially his daughter, but a brother and sister also from time to time. Leighers was prescribed a depot injection [ depixol 40mgms fornightly ] and kept this up regularly. He was prescribed lithium to be taken regularlym but after the final tragedy he was found to have accumulated over 2000 tablets. Neverthe less it seems he must have taken them sometimes - it seems just before his regular quarterly blood tets were due, because he showed blood levels in the therapeutic range over the two year period before the tragedy. The Panel consider more should have been done about a risk analysis, because of the previous murder. Otherwise the care and treatment were up to ordinary standards.
Leigher kept himself to himself and did not offer much about his life. He managed to keep his regular use of local prostitutes, private. Leigher stabbed his second victim in a bedroom with a bayonet - perhaps left by his father, a German pow, which he was known to have, that he had kept underneath the bed. The panel agreed with everybody else that Leigers was not mentally ill, but state that does not mean he is normal Follow up in prison is not referred to. We are not told whether the depot injections are still going on.
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