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| Killer Phillip Westwater flees secure Newcastle hospital | Killer Phillip Westwater flees secure Newcastle hospital |
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| A convicted killer detained under the Mental Health Act has escaped from a secure hospital in Newcastle. | A convicted killer detained under the Mental Health Act has escaped from a secure hospital in Newcastle. |
| Phillip Westwater, 44, fled St Nicholas Hospital, a medium-security unit, in Gosforth, at about 10:00 GMT. | |
| He was being escorted in the hospital when he asked to go to the toilets from where he escaped. | He was being escorted in the hospital when he asked to go to the toilets from where he escaped. |
| He is described as white, 6ft tall, of slim build with brown and grey hair. Westwater killed a fellow patient at a hospital in Liverpool. | He is described as white, 6ft tall, of slim build with brown and grey hair. Westwater killed a fellow patient at a hospital in Liverpool. |
| Police have asked the public not to approach him and dial 999 if they see him. | Police have asked the public not to approach him and dial 999 if they see him. |
| Westwater, from Newcastle, left the clothing he had been wearing in the toilets so police do not have a description of what he might be wearing. | |
| Detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act following a pub fight in 1989, Westwater then strangled Derek Williams at Ashworth Hospital, Liverpool, with his dressing gown cord. | |
| He admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, having become convinced his victim had turned into a black dog. | He admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, having become convinced his victim had turned into a black dog. |
| Westwater married a nurse while he was a patient at high-security Rampton Hospital in Nottinghamshire in 2008. | |
| Before being treated at Rampton, he had also been a patient at Broadmoor Hospital in West London. | |
| Northumbria police are making inquiries into Westwater and any risks he may or may not pose. |