He added: ‘Even after the death of Catherine it is necessary to protect the public
Posted in General on 18. Aug, 2010
He added: ‘Even after the death of Catherine, it is necessary to protect the public and particularly her sister and her sister’s husband – Sylvia and Denis Hartington – from serious harm from you.’Mrs Hartington shouted ‘burn in hell, you bastard’ as Howard was led to the cells.Howard had admitted killing Miss Ayling on his appearance at Lewes Crown Court in July. Curtis Howard stalked 24-year-old Catherine Ayling for two years before stabbing her 10 times and slitting her throat at Crewe and Alsager College in Cheshire where she was studying humanities.
He left her body in the boot of his hire car at Gatwick airport before flying back to the United States.At the Old Bailey yesterday, Mr Justice Hidden described Howard as ‘a cunning, devious, violent and dangerous man’. ‘If this scheme had been introduced earlier, hundreds of people who are now dead would still be alive today,’ he said.. A computer student from the United States was jailed for life yesterday for killing an English exchange student with whom he became obsessed. Yes, it is addictive, but a lot less harmful to the user than injecting street drugs, which may be adulterated and can cause death.’Used in conjunction with social services, methadone provides a platform for weaning addicts off hard drugs.’Alex Riach, 40, who started taking opiates when he was 17, now receives a 100ml daily dose of methadone. Graham Walkinshaw, liaison officer at the Glasgow-based Scottish Drugs Forum, said: ‘Methadone is not a panacea but it is a useful tool in the struggle to reduce the problems of addiction.
A methadone maintenance programme, pioneered in Edinburgh in 1988, was introduced in Glasgow in February this year. One thousand of the city’s estimated 10,000 injecting addicts have been treated so far, but many GPs oppose the scheme and are refusing to prescribe the drug.They say methadone is also highly addictive and replacing illegal drugs with legal ones will not solve Glasgow’s drugs problem.Drugs welfare workers disagree. She took what is believed to a ‘cocktail’ of heroin and sleeping tablets. Drugs killed 43 people in Glasgow last year and 73 in 1992.
Drugs welfare workers said methadone, a synthetic opiate, helps to regulate addicts’ behaviour and encourages them to give up hard drugs. First Edition Health officials in Glasgow called for increased prescription of the heroin substitute, methadone, yesterday after deaths from drugs overdoses reached a new record.
Sarah Sim, 24, from the Gorbals, became the 74th person in Strathclyde this year to die after taking drugs. I really believe that she keeps me out of hospital.’Neil Woods is not his real name. ‘I was supposed to see her once or twice a month but that is really no good for me.I have some insight and I knew I needed more regular contact.’I had to work very hard on changing it, but she sees me for half an hour a week. Since his community psychiatric nurse, his ‘key worker’, was assigned to him, he has had one bad attack. Three of them rugby-tackled me to the floor.’ At least this incident led to a barrage of brain scans and tests; 18 months after his first attack manic depression was diagnosed.He was without a home or a job, so the local authority found him bed and breakfast accommodation He was maintained on drugs as an outpatient A succession of attacks followed. He was again discharged and left to his own devices.Following another attack he was admitted to hospital but treated as a cocaine addict, he says. He was produced as an example of addiction for trainee doctors.
‘I told them I was a committed Christian and totally against drugs and started for the consultant with my hands outstretched for his throat. ‘I was waiting for the tide to come in as I had decided to swim to Southend,’ Mr Woods recalls. Again he was taken away by police, this time to yet another hospital where he says he had excellent care. His diagnosis was: brief reactive psychosis, ‘the sort of thing soldiers get after a bad experience’. ‘A young doctor thought I was on drugs.’ Apparently Mr Woods said something offensive to a nurse. ‘It was something like ‘I want to make love to you and make lots and lots of baby computers together’.’ He was escorted from the premises.He wandered all night and was spotted by two security guards standing on a parapet of Tower Bridge.