{"id":97566,"date":"2025-10-22T18:38:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/97566\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:38:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:38:20","slug":"benefits-for-offenders-in-psychiatric-hospitals-may-be-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/97566\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits for offenders in psychiatric hospitals may be stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Benefits going to offenders in psychiatric hospitals could be stopped after a mother whose daughter was killed by her boyfriend called for &#8220;true systematic changes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gogoa Lois Tape, 28, was detained by hospital order last month for killing Kennedi Westcarr-Sabaroche, 25, in Hackney, east London, in April 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kennedi&#8217;s mother Linda Westcarr and uncle met Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden in Parliament on Monday to lobby for change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following the meeting, McFadden said he had asked officials to look into possible changes to the benefits systems for those being detained by hospital order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benefits going to offenders in psychiatric hospitals could be stopped after a mother whose daughter was killed by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-97566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}