A CALDERSTONES patient jailed last week for indecently assaulting a female nurse had previously demanded to be returned to high security Ashworth Hospital in Liverpool -- home to Moors murderer Ian Brady, the Evening Telegraph can reveal.
The patient, Paul Taylor, was given a three-month prison term last week by Blackburn magistrates, pending transfer to a maximum security mental hospital. Months earlier hospital bosses had said he would be kept away from women, following a similar offence.
Taylor's demand to go back to Ashworth is revealed in a confidential report of a meeting of the Chestnut Drive clinical management team at Calderstones in March 2000 -- before the first incident.
It says Taylor had been kicking doors and making threats to female staff. He had been demanding a return to Ashworth.
Ribble Valley Tory MP Nigel Evans said today: "It seems that he was too dangerous to be in Calderstones in the first place."
Meanwhile, the boss of beleaguered Calderstones today said he would be happy to meet the MPs who have called for an urgent security review following the sex attack and other recent incidents.
Mr Evans and Hyndburn Labour MP Greg Pope have demanded action.
Chief executive Russ Pearce said he had nothing to add on the question of a safety review at the hospital. " I have had no correspondence from either MP. But I am always happy to see them," he added.
Both MPs were reported still to be studying recent events at Calderstones at their Westminster bases.
Nigel Robinson, chief officer of the Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Community Health Council, said he had now arranged to meet Mr Pearce next Tuesday, at the hospital. They would be discussing "a number of issues."
The health council is due to meet tonight but Calderstones is not on the official agenda.
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