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The access is stupidly easy into this place. I imagine it won’t remain like that.. General feeling of unease once inside the building, most of the rooms have 0 daylight coming in and so it’s quite eerie walking around the wards. Some of the doors are locked making you double back on yourself.
Was quite surprised at how intact the building is and to see how much is left laying around - paperwork, hard drives and medical equipment.
History -
The Scott Clinic was a medium secure psychiatric unit and after 30 years of use, first closed in 2015 and later for good in 2020 after being branded ‘not fit for purpose’. The unit was named after the late Dr. Peter Scott and provided facilities for up to 50 patients across 5 wards. The clinic housed a patient who stabbed one of The Beatles, George Harrison.
The Scott Clinic received quite a backlash after ‘catastrophic errors’ allowed paranoid schizophrenic Leslie Gadsby to stab his mother to death after he had already killed his father. An independent report recently found Liverpool taxi driver Gadsby and his mum Edna were “seriously failed” by mental health professionals at Mersey Care NHS trust. After suffering paranoid hallucinations Gadbsy, now 42, was admitted to a hospital mental health unit in 2003 but the beds were full, leaving him free to bludgeon his father Arthur to death with a hammer in their family kitchen. After he was released from the Scott Clinic following his father’s death he brutally killed mum Edna Gadsby by stabbing her in the throat before going downstairs to chat to social workers about Scrabble.
The access is stupidly easy into this place. I imagine it won’t remain like that.. General feeling of unease once inside the building, most of the rooms have 0 daylight coming in and so it’s quite eerie walking around the wards. Some of the doors are locked making you double back on yourself.
Was quite surprised at how intact the building is and to see how much is left laying around - paperwork, hard drives and medical equipment.
History -
The Scott Clinic was a medium secure psychiatric unit and after 30 years of use, first closed in 2015 and later for good in 2020 after being branded ‘not fit for purpose’. The unit was named after the late Dr. Peter Scott and provided facilities for up to 50 patients across 5 wards. The clinic housed a patient who stabbed one of The Beatles, George Harrison.
The Scott Clinic received quite a backlash after ‘catastrophic errors’ allowed paranoid schizophrenic Leslie Gadsby to stab his mother to death after he had already killed his father. An independent report recently found Liverpool taxi driver Gadsby and his mum Edna were “seriously failed” by mental health professionals at Mersey Care NHS trust. After suffering paranoid hallucinations Gadbsy, now 42, was admitted to a hospital mental health unit in 2003 but the beds were full, leaving him free to bludgeon his father Arthur to death with a hammer in their family kitchen. After he was released from the Scott Clinic following his father’s death he brutally killed mum Edna Gadsby by stabbing her in the throat before going downstairs to chat to social workers about Scrabble.
