A paranoid schizoprencic suspected of killing his mother while on "community care" release programme has been sent back to a mental hospital.
Police confirmed that a pensioner stabbed to death is the mother of a paranoid schizophrenic Leslie Gadsby.
The former Liverpool taxi driver had been released into the community after being sectioned for killing his father and attacking his mother six years ago.
Gadsby, 38, was arrested on suspicion murdering his mother Edna Gadsby who died from multiple stab wounds.
Her mutilated body was found with multiple stab wounds at his apartment in Tuebrook, Liverpool, where he lived after being released under supervision of the Mersey Care NHS Trust forensic psychiatry service.
Gadsby was ordered to be detained under the Mental Health Act after he admitted killing his father, Arthur, 63, with claw hammer in a sustained attack in February 2004.
When he appeared at Liverpool Crown Court in October of that year the prosecution accepted his plea of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
A similar plea was entered on a charge of inflicting GBH on his mother in the same attack in which she suffered a skull fracture.
Grey-haired Mrs Gadsby's body was found in her son's apartment in Moscow Drive in the early hours of Wednesday.
It was found after he was arrested on suspicion of arson at her home three miles away in Belle Vale.
A spokesman for Merseyside Police said: "The victim has been identified as Mrs Edna Gatsby, aged 70. A post mortem has confirmed she died as a result of multiple stab wounds.
"A 38-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been detained under the Mental Health Act."
Gadsby was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order and initially sent to the Scott Clinic at Rainhill, near St Helens.
The date of his release into the community is unclear but his new-build flat is provided by the mental health support charity Imagine and was occupied for the first time only a few weeks ago.
Typically, patients released into the community are diagnosed as not being a significant danger to the public or to relatives.
They are usually required to strictly adhere to a programme of medication in order to control their illness and it is understood that Gadsby was following such a programme.
A spokeswoman for Mersey Care NHS Trust said it would be inappropriate for them to comment.
* There have been a number of violent deaths of relatives and strangers, perpetrated by patients in community care on Merseyside.
Alan Scott, killed his parents Alan Scott snr, 61, and Stella Scott, 59, at their home in Allerton, Liverpool on 31st March 2008. In July last year, after he was sectioned it emerged that he had been released from the Scott Clinic but had missed taking some of his scheduled medication prior to the deaths.
His sisters are demanding a public inquiry into the handling of his case which they say is the THIRD in a pattern of similar blunders by the NHS in the Merseyside area .
The latest case follows the case of unmedicated schizophrenic Michael Abram, who attempted to kill pop legend George Harrison in 1999, and that of Mark Corner, who butchered two prostitutes in Liverpool in 2003.
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