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A retired doctor was beaten to death by his own son an hour after the paranoid schizophrenic escaped from a mental health unit.
Daniel Harrison took a taxi to his parents’ country home before attacking father Kim in the kitchen.
Dr Harrison, 68, an expert in pulmonary fibrosis, never recovered from the brain injuries he sustained.
The grandfather died 20 days after the attack in March.
In a statement released after Harrison was made the subject of an indefinite hospital order yesterday, his family said they were ‘struggling to comprehend’ why it took the loss of his father for the defendant to have ‘the treatment he has desperately needed’ restarted.
Swansea Crown Court heard Harrison had been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic 15 years ago and spent time in the city’s Cefn Coed Hospital.
Retired doctor Kim Harrison, 68, was beaten to death by his son, a paranoid schizophrenic who had fled a mental health unit
William Hughes QC, prosecuting, said the 37-year-old’s condition worsened in 2018 when he stopped taking medication and became increasingly paranoid.
He was banned from the family home for some 18 months before being allowed to return last Christmas – but was subsequently admitted to hospital again due to his continued ‘severe’ aggression towards his parents.
Mr Hughes said Harrison was later sectioned
