Mental Health Bill briefing

In 1998, then health secretary Frank Dobson announced the government's intention to create new legislation to close 'loopholes' in the 1983 Mental Health Act. The announcement followed the conviction of personality-disordered Michael Stone in 1998 for the brutal murders of Lin and Megan Russell.



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