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BREAKING NEWS: Convicted killer known as the 'Black Dog Strangler'
on the run after escaping from secure mental hospital by asking to use toilet (Daily Mail)
on the run after escaping from secure mental hospital by asking to use toilet (Daily Mail)
more at link aboveDeranged murderer Phillip Westwater, dubbed the Black Dog Strangler, has escaped from a secure psychiatric hospital in Newcastle.
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The 44-year-old was detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act in 1989 following a pub fight in which he left a drinker paralysed after slashing him across the throat.
He then strangled fellow patient Derek Williams at Ashworth Hospital, Liverpool, with his dressing gown cord after becoming convinced that the his victim had turned him into a dog. The incident led to Westwater being given the nickname Black Dog Strangler.
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Westwater left the clothes he had been wearing in the hospital, considered a medium security unit, so officers are uncertain what he is wearing.
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The killer, who is described as white, six feet tall, of slim build with brown/grey hair, escaped form the hospital at around 10am today.
He has previously been detained at high security psychiatric hospital Broadmoor, joining high profile prisoners such as Ian Brady.
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