These Patients Are Dangerous Staff Deserve to Be Safe

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NURSES at top-security Ashworth hospital are regularly out- numbered five-to-one by dangerous psychiatric patients. The ECHO today reveals how some nurses feel vulnerable to attack or intimidation as staff levels on wards deteriorate.

Ashworth, in Maghull, is home to some of the UK's most dangerous criminals including Moors killer Ian Brady. n Schizophrenic murderer Paul Khan, who stabbed a Prestatyn dog walker to death in a frenzied, unprovoked attack Cop killer Glaister Earl Butler, who knifed a constable in Manchester.

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These Patients Are Dangerous Staff Deserve to Be Safe

n Raymond Wills, who butchered his sister and nephew.

n Liverpool murderer Mark Corner, who stabbed and dismembered two prostitutes.

n Homophobic killer Roy Jorgensen Kristensen, who stabbed barman Philip Lee at Otterspool.

One ward routinely has only three nurses ...

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