Marjorie Grayson: Verdict expected today in tragic death case
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Sheffield assistant coroner Abigail Combes is expecting to sum up the case, which resumes at the Medico-Legal Centre this afternoon.
Marjorie Grayson, aged 85, fatally stabbed her husband, Alan, in the home they shared in Orgreave Lane, Handsworth, in September 2018.
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Hide AdShe had been suffering from a type of dementia, which affected her ability to inhibit her impulses on the day of the “inexplicable” attack upon her husband.
She was sentenced to a hospital order under the Mental Health Act.
But after being discharged into the community she was found dead at her home on Orgreave Lane.
A psychiatrist had said Mrs Grayson had not expressed anything which suggested she posed a risk to herself, but her family have raised questions over the care she received after her discharge during lockdown.