{"id":1423,"date":"2025-04-30T09:14:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2025-04-30T10:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T10:27:04","slug":"lost-opportunity-to-treat-ill-man-before-mother-killed-outside-shopping-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/lost-opportunity-to-treat-ill-man-before-mother-killed-outside-shopping-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"'Lost opportunity' to treat ill man before mother killed outside shopping centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mother of two was bashed to death in a random attack by a "very unwell and dangerous" man after lost opportunities to address his serious mental illness, a coroner has found.<\/p>\n

Jayden Tanee Lowah, 25, was found not guilty by reason of mental incompetence in 2020 of the murder of Michelle Foster, 36, outside an Adelaide shopping centre in October 2018.<\/p>\n

After the SA Supreme Court ordered that he serve a period of indefinite mental health supervision, Deputy State Coroner Naomi Kereru held an inquest to examine the circumstances of Michelle's death.<\/p>\n

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In findings released on Wednesday, Kereru said it had been necessary to examine how and why Lowah was in the community in a psychotic state and able to kill an innocent young woman 41 days after his release from prison.<\/p>\n

Lowah was "a very unwell and dangerous individual from an early age", who was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 15 after threatening to kill his father.<\/p>\n

Kereru noted that Michelle's mother, Andrea Foster, had "good reason for feeling hatred towards Mr Lowah, [but] she saw her daughter's death in a different light after hearing the evidence at inquest".<\/p>\n

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"Fundamentally as a system, we failed Jayden and the community," Andrea said.<\/p>\n

"He was released when it was not safe to do so and he was not in a position where he could be safely reintegrated into the community."<\/p>\n

After being convicted of two random attacks on strangers in August 2017, Lowah was released from prison in September 2018.<\/p>\n

The day before his release, a prison social worker wrote: "Prisoner Lowah is at high risk of reoffending and harming others due to his significant history of making threats towards others, poor frustration tolerance, impulsivity and emotional dysregulation."<\/p>\n

At 2.15am on the day after his release, Lowah called an ambulance and said he wanted to go to hospital because he felt as if "I'll probably kill someone".<\/p>\n

"On its face, the decision to discharge Mr Lowah into the community from the ED, with a history of schizophrenia after having expressed an intention to hurt or kill someone, appeared fundamentally flawed, particularly in light of Ms Foster's violent death six weeks later," Kereru found.<\/p>\n

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In finding Michelle's death was not preventable, she noted "lost opportunities for the trajectory of Mr Lowah's illness to have been altered".<\/p>\n

The coroner said that throughout the inquest, there were comments from witnesses about the resourcing of the mental health system, including Chief Superintendent James Blandford.<\/p>\n

"[During] 43 years of policing, taking people backwards and forwards \u2026 to Glenside [hospital] where they were actually given asylum and care, to now a public hospital or a GP, they are out before my people have finished the paperwork because there are \u2026 no facilities for people who are in crisis," he said.<\/p>\n

Kereru recommended the attorney-general consider broadening the definition of "high risk offender" for an extended supervision order, with an additional category for offenders identified as an unacceptable risk to the community.<\/p>\n

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A mother of two was bashed to death in a random attack by a "very unwell and dangerous" man after lost opportunities to address his serious mental illness, a coroner has found. Jayden Tanee Lowah, 25, was found not guilty by reason of mental incompetence in 2020 of the murder of Michelle Foster, 36, outside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}