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Mr Cordell is a 37 years old man with previous diagnosis of F29X - Unspecified nonorganic
psychosis. He has been known to CAMHS service in the past and to Adult Mental Health
Services since 2014. However, he has not been engaging with the services in recent years
despite numerous attempts from mental health teams.
Mr Cordell become significantly unwell in mental health in 2014. He deteriorated
significantly in mental state but he refused engage with mental health service and declined
to take medication. Consequently, he had to be detained under Section 2 of MHA in 2016.
He was treated with medication (Olanzapine) during the admission but soon after discharge
he stopped taking his medication. He continued to be seen by Early Intervention service
following a discharge but he continued to refuse any treatment for his condition. This led to
further deterioration in mental health. When Mr Cordell is unwell, he presents with
persecutory delusions about his neighbours, council staff and the police. As a result of
paranoid beliefs, he becomes more aggressive and threatening especially towards
neighbours. From 2016 to January 2018 there were numerous complaints from neighbours
reported about Nr Cordell’s acts of harassment and antisocial behaviour. This led to an
interim injunction order (harassment order) to be issued against Mr Cordell, at the
Edmonton County Court, in January 2018. Mr Cordell breached the order on multiple
occasions. It has been reported that his neighbours have been assaulted, harassed and have
received threats from Mr Cordell. In addition, Mr Cordell disengaged with EIS.
In April 2018 further deterioration in mental health was observed when he contacted the
police and complained about the neighbours making noise. EIS team was contacted and
they offered to review Mr Cordell but he refused to work with them again.
On the 1st of June he was arrested for harassing his neighbours and breaching the
injunction order against him. He threatened his neighbour who was at the time with her two
children that he
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will kill her and her children " You fucking bitch, I have a bomb for you, I will get in your
block, kill you and your children At that point, EIS stated that he has gone beyond EIS three
year treatment period and therefore they referred his case to Enfield North Locality Team in
June 2018. During the period of next few months (from June 2018 until October 2018 - they
were reported numerous accounts of harassment and assaults to his council on his
neighbour) Mr Cordell has continued to harass his neighbours and has refused to engage
with mental health services. Few neighbours already moved out from their flats due to Mr
Cordell’s aggressive behaviour and Enfield Council decided to seek possession of Mr
Cordell’s flat via the courts. In a recent court case, the judge recommended that Enfield
Council re-house Mr Cordell on the proviso that he engages with the MH Team. However,
he failed to do that.
In October 2018, Mr Cordell was physically aggressive towards another service user who
lives in the same building as him. Mr Cordell took him by the throat and left him feeling
unable to walk around on the floor or even flush his toilet chain for fear of sparking another
altercation (with no basis) about excessive noise.
This triggered a safeguarding process and Enfield Adult North Locality Team decided to
organise MHA assessment as Mr Cordell refused to engage with them.