An inquest jury concluded that systemic failures by police and healthcare professionals allowed a mentally ill man to be released from custody and kill three pensioners in Devon in 2019.

An inquest jury concluded on Tuesday that failures by police and healthcare professionals from Devon County Council, Devon Partnership Trust and G4S allowed paranoid schizophrenic Alexander Lewis-Ranwell, 35, to be released from Barnstaple custody in February 2019 hours before he killed Anthony Payne, 80, and 84-year-old identical twins Dick and Roger Carter in Exeter.