A convicted killer has failed in a legal bid to force health authorities in Oxfordshire to fund her £200,000 transfer to a medium security unit.
The 32-year-old, named only as T, took her case to the High Court in London to try to force the move from high-security Broadmoor Hospital.
But Mr Justice Sullivan dismissed her judicial review, saying the case hinged on a funding decision which should not be controlled by the legal process.
He said that Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare NHS Trust and Oxfordshire NHS Health Authority had to perform a delicate "balancing exercise" when apportioning funds, and could not be criticised.
The court heard that funding her transfer would cost an estimated £100,000 a year - equivalent to a third of the health authority's annual cancer drugs budget.
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