An international lung expert was beaten to death by his son who escaped from a psychiatric hospital after the health board ignored repeated warnings from the victim and his wife, believing they were abusing their position as doctors to get preferential treatment.
A coroner ruled that Kim Harrison, 68, an expert in pulmonary fibrosis who had recently retired, was brutally attacked by Daniel Harrison, 38, following a series of medical and security failures.
An inquest was told that Harrison and his wife Jane, who is also a doctor, had repeatedly complained to health staff that their son’s paranoid delusions were getting worse but were dismissed as “overbearing” by staff who had “fixed views” that they were abusing their position as doctors to get preferential treatment
