The missed alternative to cease a schizophrenic axe killer

A person who was brutally attacked by his paranoid schizophrenic cousin may have been saved if a name to the police had not been left on maintain for greater than 40 minutes, an inquest has heard. 

Killer Ashley Glennon chased his predominant carer, Ryan Lowry, down the road and struck him 13 occasions with an axe in Trafford, Greater Manchester, on February 27 2020.

Glennon, then aged 32, pleaded responsible to manslaughter by cause of diminished duty and was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order in January 2021.

Stockport Coroners’ Court heard proof from Sgt Dominic Brady, of Greater Manchester Police‘s skilled requirements department, who investigated the way in which the drive handled calls made about Glennon on the day he killed Mr Lowry.

He defined how the chain of occasions resulting in police checking on Glennon broke down and the way a possible alternative to detain him was missed when a 101 caller who tried to report the would-be killer was placed on maintain for 40 minutes.

Ryan Lowry (pictured) was axed to dying on the street by his cousin on February 27 2020

Greater Manchester Police is being investigated over the way it handled calls made about Glennon on the day he killed Mr Lowry (pictured)

Police on Moss Lane in Partington, Greater Manchester, the place Mr Lowry was fatally wounded in 2020

The courtroom heard how within the early hours of February 27, Glennon – also called Ashley Rowen – had kicked down the door of Alan Lambert, the daddy of his ex-partner Ashley Lambert.

In a written assertion learn in courtroom by assistant coroner Adrian Farrow, Mr Lambert stated he had been asleep and in the course of a dream when he was woken by a ‘actually irate voice’ at round 4am.

Mr Lambert stated he heard somebody shout: ‘Get down right here, I’m going to take your f***ing head off.’ He then heard a ‘loud bang’, adopted by a ‘smashing sound’, and described the ordeal as ‘carnage’.

The courtroom heard Mr Lambert obtained CCTV footage of the incident from a neighbour and confirmed this to his daughter, who stated it was her ex-partner, Glennon.

Mr Lambert had contacted GMP concerning the incident at 4:24am, earlier than officers had been allotted to the incident at 7:30am and arrived at his house 19 minutes later.

Officers carried out door-to-door enquiries after chatting with Mr Lambert and considered CCTV footage of the incident, however the video was deemed ‘not of adequate high quality’, the courtroom heard. On the identical day, Glennon adopted his ex-partner Ms Lambert and her youngsters, Mr Farrow informed the inquest.

Mr Farrow stated: ‘She had alerted the college to the very fact as a result of, in her view, he was displaying indicators of being mentally unwell.’

Ms Lambert known as police on 101 at round 11:15am, however hung up after being placed on maintain for greater than 40 minutes, the inquest heard. Mr Lowry was attacked on Moss Lane later that evening.

Mr Lowry (pictured) was killed after  Ms Lambert known as police on 101 at round 11:15am, however hung up after being placed on maintain for greater than 40 minutes

The officer confronted questioning from Mr Farrow, the barrister for Mr Lowry’s household, Sefton Kwasnik, GMP’s authorized consultant, Lujzka Halsall-Fischel, and members of the jury,

Sgt Brady defined that Ms Lambert’s name ought to have been handed on to the drive’s management centre. He informed the courtroom that from that second, police would have prioritised her security, and the security of her youngsters.

They would have taken additional particulars from Ms Lambert concerning the incident and about Glennon. Sgt Brady informed the courtroom that ‘primarily based on the knowledge’ out there to him, he would have anticipated a welfare examine to have been carried out on Glennon, inside ‘three or 4 hours’.

Sgt Brady stated: ‘There could be no level in GMP declaring that it has concern for welfare for a person after which placing it off for tomorrow to cope with it.’

He stated that if Ms Lambert had the chance to inform police Glennon had focused her father’s house that morning, officers would have had ‘grounds to arrest’ him.

The officer additionally defined how police may have detained Glennon underneath the Mental Health Act, if police felt he didn’t have capability, and was exterior his house on the time.

The inquest has heard how Glennon had a ‘lengthy historical past of psychological sickness’ – whereas he admitted he had not been taking his medicine previous to killing Mr Lowry.

The inquest continues.

Greater Manchester Police stated it couldn’t remark throughout an ongoing judicial inquiry.