The day before William Warrington killed his mother, Valerie, 73, and father, Clive, 68, the family sent 11 emails to the Gloucestershire hospital where he was being treated expressing their concern for him. Valerie Warrington, herself a hospital worker, wrote: “I fear for the safety of myself, my children and anyone else I come into contact with.” But William Warrington, 42, who believed he had telepathic communication with Vladimir Putin and model Kate Moss and was ordered by the UK government to kill his parents, managed to slip away from Wotton Lawn Hospital in Gloucester on the night of 1st. March. Staff didn’t notice he was gone for two hours and when they finally reported him missing to the police they didn’t warn him he was dangerous. Warrington caught a taxi to his mother’s home in the Cotswolds village of Bourton-on-the-Water, broke in and repeatedly stabbed and punched her before dragging her body outside. He ran over her body in her own car and then drove to Cheltenham, where she entered his father’s flat. Neighbors heard Warrington say: “I’m going to enjoy this.” He stabbed his father in the face and cut his throat. Warrington pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his parents, who were divorced, on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Bristol Crown Court was told he has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. In a statement read to the court, family members said: “Over the past few weeks [to the killings] our fears for the safety of the family [were] it was shared with the emergency services, Gloucestershire Police and Gloucestershire NHS Health and Care Trust. “We will forever be affected by the dramatic nature and avoidable circumstances. We have lost all confidence in the government services and systems responsible for managing and responding to mental health crises and domestic abuse.” An investigation will be held into how Warrington’s case was treated and how he was able to leave hospital. Ms Justice Eady, ordering him to be held indefinitely at the secure Broadmoor psychiatric hospital for what she called “premeditated murders”, said Warrington had had psychiatric problems since at least 2016 and pointed out that he had been given a restraining order in 2019 after stick with Moss. . The judge said there were “very serious questions” about the way the authorities treated Warrington and added it must be “considerable regret” that no one contacted his parents after he left hospital. Anna Vigars KC, prosecuting, told the court that Warrington had been living with his mother in the years before the attack but had become increasingly violent when he blamed her for failing to secure planning permission to develop land attached in her property. He then went to live in a share house owned by his mother in Cheltenham. On February 17, he was arrested for attacking his roommate in the shared accommodation with a knife. He had a mental health assessment and was voluntarily detained under section 2 of the Mental Health Act. He was being treated at Wotton Lawn. On the afternoon of March 1, he accompanied himself to a local petrol station to buy supplies and secretly withdrew £100. That night, he was allowed into a courtyard and slipped out. Gloucestershire NHS Foundation Trust for Health and Care said: “As well as supporting Gloucestershire Police with their investigation, we are undertaking our own investigation. The result will be shared with NHS England and the Care Quality Commission who will review it further in line with national requirements. Any learning will be dealt with thoroughly.”
