Double killer found hanged a week after tribunal ruled he could not be deported

Laith Alani, 41, who killed two consultant cosmetic surgeons at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield, in 1990, was found dead on February 1 at a hostel in Ealing, London, where he had been living. An immigration tribunal ruled he should not be deported a week earlier.

The Home Office wanted to deport him but the tribunal ruled that this would breach his human rights and put people in Iraq at risk because his treatment for paranoid schizophrenia would cease if he were deported.

The tribunal decision shocked the surgeons' widows.

An inquiry will now take place by the mental health trust which was caring for Alani. He had been living in the community following his release from secure care in November 2008.

Before release he had been in Rampton high security hospital until June 2005 when he was moved to a medium security unit in west London.

A spokeswoman for West London Mental Health Trust said: "From November 2008 he was cared for in the community, following a conditional discharge by a Mental Health Review Tribunal.

"This support had increased since the intensification of media attention, in an attempt to ensure his continued well-being in spite of negative coverage about him in the national Press and radio."

A coroner's inquiry is now taking place along with a routine review of the psychiatric care provided by the health trust, which included the input of a psychiatrist and nurses.

A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "Restricted patients are very carefully managed for public protection, and are subject to a rigorous risk assessment."

If discharged from secure hospitals, they were subject to intensive supervision.