Park girl killer was 'let down by professional egos in mental health care' - The Sun

A MENTAL health patient who stabbed to death a 13-year-old girl was failed by health chiefs and social services, a report said yesterday.

Demon-obsessed drug-user Hannah Bonser, 28, was jailed for at least 22 years for murdering Casey Kearney in a random attack in a park on Valentine's Day.

Bonser had been discharged from a psychiatric unit two weeks earlier AFTER warning docs she might harm someone.

Yesterday an independent report commissioned by NHS Doncaster Primary Health Care Trust accused a string of agencies of failures.

They stretched back nearly 20 YEARS — Bonser's GP reported she was being neglected by her parents when she was just seven.

The authors blamed "professional egos" for getting in the way of real help, adding: "Throughout her life it appears services failed to listen to her concerns. She was almost invisible."

The report made 21 recommendations which the agencies — including Doncaster Safeguarding Children's Board, Doncaster Children's Services and Yorkshire Ambulance Trust — vowed to follow.