Woman discharged from mental health care months before she cut off her mum's head

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A woman was discharged by the community mental health team only months before she decapitated her mum, an inquest has been told.

An overworked senior psychiatric nurse who helped to care for Odessa Carey told how she warned that she did not have "capacity" to take the patient on, and described working for the mental health trust as "chaotic." Carey killed her 73-year-old mum, who shared the same name, and cut off her head at her home in Ashington in April 2019, reports Chronicle Live.Mentally-ill Carey was consequently detained in a secure hospital after a jury at Newcastle Crown Court decided that she was responsible for the killing.Now at the inquest into the mum's death, Coroner Andrew Hethrington has heard details of the mental health care Odessa received in the run up to the savage killing.The hearing heard from the now retired psychiatric nurse Wendy Dunn who worked for Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW) who were managing Carey's care.The hearing heard how in early 2018 Wendy had been visiting Carey at least once a fortnight, and sometimes weekly.Wendy explained that during visits to the home Carey shared with her mum there would be "some delusional content to conversation" and the patient would often speak of her belief that the woman she was living with was not her real mother.She also believed her mum was letting people into her house to steal her belongings.It was also noted that Carey was using cannabis and there was a "risk of deterioration in mental health" if this continued.But she was not sent to a drug and alcohol treatment service, and Ms Dunn said there was no indication that Carey intended to harm her mother.Wendy said: "When I asked if she would harm herself or her mum