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Professor Lade Smith, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, delivered a sobering testimony at the Nottingham Inquiry into the fatal attacks by Valdo Calocane, a man with paranoid schizophrenia. She argued that Calocane’s discharge nine months prior — due to lack of engagement — was a critical failure, and called for urgent reforms in fragmented mental health care. Smith stressed that disengagement is often a red flag, not recovery, and urged systemic changes to improve coordination, resourcing, and risk identification. With deep empathy for victims’ families, she hopes the inquiry sparks practical, life-saving reforms in how severe mental illness is managed.

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