{"id":93769,"date":"2025-10-22T07:09:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93769\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T07:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:09:18","slug":"benefits-for-offenders-in-psychiatric-hospitals-may-be-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93769\/","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":93770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-93769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}