{"id":581596,"date":"2026-05-13T11:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581596\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:31:08","slug":"doctor-did-not-ask-nottingham-triple-killer-about-hallucinations-public-inquiry-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581596\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor did not ask Nottingham triple killer about hallucinations, public inquiry told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calocane had &#8216;reasonable insight&#8217; into his illnesspublished at 10:41 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:41 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thangavelu said Calocane had &#8220;reasonable insight&#8221; into his symptoms and treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also recorded that Calocane felt &#8220;aggrieved&#8221; and that the Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) team had a &#8220;low threshold&#8221; for admitting him to Highbury Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thangavelu said in notes from a ward review that the killer accepted his first admission was &#8220;rational&#8221;, but the others were not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was put to Thangavelu this was not consistent with having insight. Thangavelu said: &#8220;I was not basing it on one discussion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What I was mentioning about the insight, the way we understand it&#8217;s not an all-or-none phenomena and it&#8217;s not static.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Recognition of symptoms, perhaps linking it to those symptoms, and attributing to a condition &#8211; most patients with mental health problems actually fail on the third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not something you see clear-cut in patients. They may be holding back their guard, but in other conversations they might say the voices were bothering me and so on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thangavelu said Calocane did not have &#8220;good insight&#8221;, but he &#8220;was able to recognise some sort of experience he was going through&#8221;, although he could not recognise it was psychosis, the inquiry was told.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calocane had &#8216;reasonable insight&#8217; into his illnesspublished at 10:41 BST 10:41 BST Thangavelu said Calocane had &#8220;reasonable insight&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-581596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}