Police seek woman on run from mental hospital

Beverley Parkinson, who is an in-patient at a mental health unit in Dewsbury, was last seen last Wednesday, March 28, in the town centre.

Police said she was on a “supervised visit” from a unit at Dewsbury and District Hospital to Sainsbury’s supermarket, in the town centre, when she ran away from her carers.

She went missing at around 11.45am on the Wednesday.

A spokeswoman for the South West Partnership NHS Foundation Trust declined to comment, citing patient confidentiality.

Ms Parkinson is considered by police to be a vulnerable person because of her health and because she has now been missing for almost a week.

She was last seen inside the Cash Converters store in Dewsbury at around 9.30am last Thursday, March 29.

Ms Parkinson is well known in the Dewsbury area and is known to frequent public houses in the town.

Police have spoken to her friends, and her former partner, and are speaking to acquaintances in the town about where she may have gone to.

A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said: “Police are concerned for Beverley’s welfare due to her being a patient at the hospital.

“Anyone who knows where Beverley is, or sees her, is asked to contact the Kirklees missing person co-ordinator via 101.

“It is believed that Beverley will be in the Dewsbury area.

“She is vulnerable and that is why we are appealing for information.

“Officers are speaking to people in the town centre where we believe she may be.”

Ms Parkinson is described as around 5ft 6 tall, slim, with brown/blonde long straight hair. She was last seen wearing blue jeans, a blue T-shirt and white trainers.

It is believed that Ms Parkinson has gone missing before but has always turned up safe and well.