Marjorie Grayson: Verdict expected today in tragic death case

A verdict is expected today in an inquest into the death of a woman found dead at the Sheffield house where she killed her husband months earlier.
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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.

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Marjorie Grayson, aged 85, fatally stabbed her husband, Alan, in the home they shared in Orgreave Lane, Handsworth, in September 2018.

Police officers and scenes of crime officers at a property in Orgreave Lane Sheffield, where the body of an 86 year old man was been discovered. Picture Dean Atkins. A verdict is expected today in an inquest into the death of a Marjorie Grayson, found dead at the Sheffield house where she killed her husband months earlier.Police officers and scenes of crime officers at a property in Orgreave Lane Sheffield, where the body of an 86 year old man was been discovered. Picture Dean Atkins. A verdict is expected today in an inquest into the death of a Marjorie Grayson, found dead at the Sheffield house where she killed her husband months earlier.
Police officers and scenes of crime officers at a property in Orgreave Lane Sheffield, where the body of an 86 year old man was been discovered. Picture Dean Atkins. A verdict is expected today in an inquest into the death of a Marjorie Grayson, found dead at the Sheffield house where she killed her husband months earlier.
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She 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.

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