Failings before woman killed in home by student

Multiple failings person been identified successful the lawsuit of a pistillate who was killed and dismembered successful her ain home.

Luke Deeley, 26, walked into June Fox-Roberts' home successful Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and killed her successful November 2021.

Family of Ms Fox-Roberts, 65, judge her decease could person been avoided.

A safeguarding reappraisal concluded that opportunities had been missed and made a fig of recommendations, portion Cwm Taf Morgannwg wellness committee apologised and accepted the recommendations.

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Ms Fox-Roberts’ assemblage was discovered connected 21 November by her girl Abi Sheppard and a household friend, who had go acrophobic aft being incapable to interaction her.

Deeley, who had been surviving unsmooth successful Llantwit Fardre and Church Village, got into the location connected St Anne’s Drive done an unlocked doorway successful the aboriginal hours.

It is thought Ms Fox-Roberts came downstairs and was attacked by Deeley successful the hallway.

She suffered caput injuries earlier being dragged into the eating country wherever she was placed connected a tarpaulin, decapitated and dismembered utilizing an axe.

Deeley, past 25 and an creation student, was arrested 2 days aboriginal aft being spotted connected CCTV surviving unsmooth astatine a adjacent tyre depot.

He admitted manslaughter connected the grounds of diminished work and was detained indefinitely astatine Ashworth psychiatric infirmary successful April 2023.

A azygous unified safeguarding reappraisal was carried retired to measure the relation of agencies progressive successful the case, including the wellness board, Rhondda Cynon Taf council, South Wales Police and the University of South Wales.

It found:

• Poor connection betwixt each agencies including education, health, section authorization and constabulary and betwixt these agencies and the Deeley family
• "Missed opportunities" successful Deeley's attraction involving the Community Mental Health Team
• No mechanics for sharing accusation erstwhile a diligent moves betwixt wellness committee localities connected a impermanent basis, arsenic Deeley did arsenic a student
• South Wales Police should person categorised the sidesplitting arsenic a "critical incident" and the rationale for not doing truthful was not clear.

The study comes successful the aftermath of a drawstring of cases wherever the relation of authorities successful caring for radical with superior intelligence unwellness who person gone connected to termination has been criticised.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg wellness committee was besides criticised aft the sidesplitting of 88-year-old John Rees successful a Co-op store by Zara Radcliffe successful May 2020.

An inquest successful May 2024 recovered superior failures contributed to the decease of Dr Kim Harrison, who was killed by his schizophrenic son.

Ms Fox-Roberts, a erstwhile IT advisor who loved baking and ran a cafe for a time, was described by her household arsenic "a unit of nature, passionate, vibrant, determined".

Her girl Abi Sheppard said: "She was conscionable an implicit beacon successful my life, my implicit rock."

Ms Sheppard said she was aggravated "that the strategy has fto america down".

"For me, there’s accountability to beryllium held with the wellness committee and the intelligence wellness strategy - the information that helium fell done the cracks," she said.

"He had a past of unit and aggression. And if he’d been cared for decently and monitored, would it person happened? We don’t know, we’ll ne'er know.

"It’s not bully capable that radical are falling done the cracks. There are consequences to that – my parent is 1 of those consequences and it’s destroyed my satellite due to the fact that helium wasn’t cared for properly."

Ms Sheppard said that portion the study had answered immoderate of the family's questions, others remained unanswered.

"We're ne'er going to cognize wherefore that house, wherefore that street, wherefore the mode helium did it, wherefore helium dismembered her?"

Deeley's parents said successful a connection that the wellness committee "failed to supply the attraction and enactment needed by our son" and had not learned the lessons of different tragedies.

"If the wellness committee had provided the attraction required successful accordance with the Mental Health (Wales) Measure, this calamity whitethorn person been prevented.

"There person been excessively galore intelligence health-related tragedies successful this wellness committee area. Due to a deficiency of accountability and nonaccomplishment to instrumentality the lessons learned from erstwhile reports, the aforesaid mistakes are needlessly being made clip and clip again."

They added, "We cannot ideate the devastation caused to the household of June Fox-Roberts and they are ever successful our thoughts."

Trisha Fox, Abi's sister, said she hoped the findings of the reappraisal would pb to meaningful alteration for others suffering from superior intelligence wellness conditions.

“I consciousness it’s a full nonaccomplishment of the strategy helium was expected to beryllium nether the attraction of.

“I deliberation there’s thing which needs to beryllium looked at, immediately, not successful 2 oregon 5 years’ time, not ‘we’ll instrumentality the due steps arsenic and when’ - it needs to beryllium done now.

“And this isn’t the lone specified case, determination person been different cases akin to this and thing seems to beryllium changing, oregon if it does alteration it’s excessively slow.

“So I consciousness really, truly aggravated astir it.”

Ms Sheppard said the household hopes determination volition present beryllium an inquest into her mother's death, "because we deliberation that mightiness supply america with much answers".

"We’re approaching 3 years successful November (since she died), and it conscionable feels similar this ne'er ends,” she said.

"We’re a household that’s been brought up by a strong, autarkic pistillate whose presumption was that you conscionable support swimming, and that’s what we do, but with this monolithic gaping spread successful our hearts wherever we’re ne'er capable to drawback our enactment due to the fact that there’s ever thing coming astatine us. It's exhausting."

Paul Mears, main enforcement of Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, said, "We cognize this tragic incidental has impacted upon the lives of galore people, and we widen our deepest sympathies to the household of June Fox-Roberts arsenic they proceed to travel to presumption with her death.

"We apologise to some families for the instances successful which Luke Deeley's attraction fell abbreviated of the precocious standards we expect for each of our work users."

Mr Mears said the wellness committee accepted the reappraisal recommendations, which reflected the findings of their ain interior investigation.