A JURY has tonight delivered a narrative verdict following an inquest into the death of a convict who was able to walk out of an Oxford mental hospital.
Ian Mitchell, 44, also known as Ian McLean, was serving a life sentence for stabbing his former partner.
He was transferred to Littlemore Mental Health Centre in April 2013, but walked out on July 8 and fled 1,500 miles to Poland where he was arrested.
He hanged himself in a prison cell that August.
Following the inquest at Oxfordshire Coroner’s Court which lasted more than seven hours, the jury of five men and four women said it was not certain Mitchell intended to take his life.
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