Lucy Wilson

Passed all my Bar exams this year! Turns out, the law is exactly where I find my strength, especially in the courtroom, & especially in speaking out! Here’s to courage, resilience & refusing to be quiet 🥂 💪⚖️✨ #LegalJourney #WomenInLaw #Resilience #Empowerment #Advocacy #law

Teenage girls raped at knifepoint whilst filmed. Judge Nicholas Rowland said: “None of you need to go to prison… I should avoid criminalising these children unnecessarily.” The justice system’s response was to protect the rapists. Not the girls. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…

“Proper funding is a must”, ironic statement. In my 30 years in the NHS there has never been enough funding. There never will be. I tell you what’s a novel idea, how about people in mental health just do the jobs that they are paid for. In Nottingham every staff member at every level simply didn’t do their job and I’ll be surprised if this isn’t universal across many mental health trusts. Personally I’m a bit fed up with NHS leaders making excuses and blame funding. All levels of staff in mental health do the basic jobs they’re paid to do, like make notes, do risk assessments etc etc on all patients with hx of violence and realise the responsibility for keeping public safe and not be victims of mental health related violence is the responsibility of treating psychiatrists. They are like every other branch of medicine liable for their patients behaviours if related to taking or not taking treatment. Time to take the responsibility with care in the community. You cannot advocate for a greater level ‘of least restrictive options’ and then take no responsibility. Can’t have it both ways. There is no place for ‘lazy’ psychiatry as has been evident. There is no place for ‘crystal ball’ psychiatry as has also been made evident. Do the job and take responsibility. I’d like to hear from you at the Nottingham Inquiry. @nottsinquiry @jamesmurray_ldn @DHSCgovuk @hundredfamilies

The #NottinghamInquiry did a very good job today of highlighting how those presiding over mental health services in the 2010s onwards did a very effective job of dismantling the v sensible recommendations of the Ritchie Report which helped safeguard the most severely mentally ill

What we all realise is that failing executives and board members just travel from one position to another unchecked. When we met Wes Streeting, he promised a regulatory body for managers and recognised this problem. We’ll be meeting the new Secretary if State soon. I’m going to ask him the same question. How far are we with this regulatory body? @wesstreeting @jamesmurray_ldn

Week 13. Day 3. Q: What they didn’t do: Care Planning Risk Assessment Record Keeping Communicate Safe Discharge Apply Policy Apply threshold to use of services. Govern. A:What they did do: Have meetings Not record them Read reports Not action them Evade. Avoid. Ignore. Fail. …repeat #nottinghaminquiry 💚💛

🙏 It would also be an idea for Westminster to engage and show a little more interest in what is happening and has happened at the Inquiry. We’ve been deafened by their silence…

Medical director (and deputy CEO) of @NottsHealthcare Dr Susan Elcock now up giving evidence. #NottinghamInquiry

What makes this even more dangerous is that families who raise legitimate concerns are too often treated as “difficult” instead of being listened to. Complaints disappear into endless internal procedures, while the same institutions investigate themselves and predictably find no serious wrongdoing. In mental health settings especially, the imbalance of power is enormous. Once a patient is labelled, it becomes frighteningly easy for evidence, lived experience, and even family safeguarding concerns to be dismissed. Meanwhile, accountability remains almost impossible to achieve, even where there are repeated failures, harm, or clear warning signs. Patient safety cannot exist without independent scrutiny, transparency, and real consequences for misconduct or negligence. Public trust is destroyed when systems appear more focused on protecting reputations than protecting vulnerable people and their families. #MentalHealth #Psychiatry #MentalHealthAwareness #PatientSafety #HumanRights #NottinghamInquiry

The NHS complaints system is widely acknowledged as flawed. Independent reviews have frequently highlighted a defensive, bureaucratic culture where trusts investigate themselves, leading to delayed responses, lost documents, and a failure to uncover the root causes of poor care Local NHS trusts like @NHSNotts, are tasked with investigating complaints made against their own staff and services, which frequently leads to a lack of impartiality. The conflict of interest stands in the way of disciplinary actions. Studies have also shown that many NHS investigations are inadequate because the focus often shifts to justifying hospital actions rather than finding out exactly why something went wrong. Responsibility, accountability and culpability of those working in psychiatric services are key factors. Despite catastrophic failures, psychiatrists and other psychiatric personnel carry on regardless. This cannot be allowed to continue. Patient and public safety are being compromised. #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters #psychiatry #mentalhealthawareness #nottinghaminquiry #psychiatrist Not a single doctor or nurse whose failings let Nottingham triple killer loose disciplined nottinghampost.com/news/health/no…

‘Not a single doctor or nurse whose failings let Nottingham triple killer loose disciplined.’ Read the full article, but essentially every effort to evade accountability pretty much until the beginning of this public inquiry. These were not training issues or minor infractions. These were serious repeated gross failures, negligence and misconduct. At ALL levels. That is NOT how we learn. @NHSEngland @NHSNotts nottinghampost.com/news/health/no…

Week 14. Day 1. It’s a long reflective point of view this evening. No argument about the chaos and chronic failures within the Nottingham Mental Health Trust. Today’s evidence speaks for itself. 😔 BUT 🔦It’s putting a spotlight now on what is clearly a national crisis. Not a phrase to use lightly. But it really is. Mental Health is crippled. Patients, staff, and the public, are not only being badly failed, untreated,unsupported and unmanaged; but all are at risk unless it’s urgently and honestly addressed. @NHSEngland @NHSNotts @DHSCgovuk

#Oliverscampaign I can't get my head around the fact that a man with Down Syndrome is living on the streets This my friends is England Mr Tolley’s mother died 3 years ago & he has been in between temporary accommodation & sleeping on the streets since readingchronicle.co.uk/news/26101439.…

Friday of week 12. Some reflections and focusing of purpose. #nottinghaminquiry 💚💛

After years fighting for my daughter through courts, regulators and public bodies, I have often felt that the system shows more concern for protecting institutions, procedures and reputations than for the actual people being harmed. When ordinary families cannot obtain proper investigations, accountability or even a fair hearing, public trust in justice inevitably collapses. Whatever people’s politics, victims and vulnerable people must never become secondary to bureaucracy or institutional self-protection.

When I first started speaking publicly about what happened to my family, I genuinely believed there would be public outrage. Because how low does a system have to sink to punish and prosecute innocent people, especially vulnerable young people subjected to harmful medication, institutionalisation, and loss of liberty? But then I realised my family is far from alone. There are thousands like us. I have learned that many of the most vulnerable members of our society, autistic, SEN children and young people, are being failed by systems supposedly designed to protect them. Too many are isolated, overmedicated, detained, traumatised, or pushed into institutional settings, while loving families are silenced, threatened, exhausted, and broken trying to protect them. What shocked me most was not only the suffering itself, but how normalised it has become. Behind the language of “care”, “safeguarding”, and “best interests”, there are enormous financial interests, expanding private providers, and systems that too often operate without meaningful accountability. Meanwhile, families searching desperately for genuine advocacy often discover how few people are truly willing to stand beside them when it matters most. The system itself has become deeply unhealthy. So now my mission is bigger than my own case. I want to help expose what is happening and push for change. What can the public do? Support people who speak out. Share evidence. Ask difficult questions. Refuse to look away. Challenge the silence around these issues. Support families fighting impossible battles behind closed doors. Real change only happens when enough people stop accepting the unacceptable.

Honestly, good advocacy is one of the hardest things to find. I would suggest: • Connecting with families who have already been through similar experiences. Peer support is often more honest and useful than official channels. • Keeping records. Documentation becomes vital when systems deny, minimise, or rewrite events later. • Understanding the legal framework yourself as much as possible. Sadly, many families discover they have to become their own researchers and advocates. • Using public pressure carefully and responsibly. Transparency matters. Many institutions only respond once scrutiny increases. I would also strongly recommend getting in touch with the Open Justice Court of Protection Project @OpenJusticeCoP . They followed my case for years, attended hearings. When you are completely on your own, it matters enormously that there are independent people willing to observe, document, and bring some transparency to what is happening behind closed doors. I will always be grateful to them for covering many aspects of my case. Most importantly: trust your instincts. Families are too often dismissed simply for raising concerns. Yet many scandals only came to light because relatives refused to stay silent. That said, in the middle of everything that happened to my family, a few extraordinary people @SpotlightJustiz , @sheilaoliver16 did come forward to support us. Some attended the hearings and even wrote statements in support, helped research evidence, and started advocating alongside me when I felt completely alone. So, as the saying goes, every cloud has a silver lining. Even in very dark situations, you sometimes discover people of remarkable courage, integrity, and humanity.

An honest conversation and observation about the 2025 Mental Health Act from a front line Psychiatrist who (unusually) isn’t fearful of facing reality. Ps: watch to end. Chair totally gets this is relevant to dangerous and violent patients like Calocane. Not a sweeping generalisation of mentally unwell. #nottinghaminquiry 💛💚

@wesstreeting @BethRigby Can we urgently discuss the catastrophe that is mental health care please? 🙏 #nottinghaminquiry 💚💛

It is on everyone following the Nottingham Attacks inquiry to make sure that they do not get away with sweeping their ever growing list of failures under the carpet. This inquiry must be more than just listened to. Those in higher positions need to ACT! This inquiry not only exposes the failings in this case, but also the institutional failings that have led to the killings of hundreds of people over many decades.

This is a really important point - Whatever the problems (and there are many), the police, AMHPs, psychiatrists and mental health nurses, etc. were working in a SYSTEM. Those designed, evolved and led the system(s) need to be giving evidence about the structures they created.