Murderer: Theodore Johnson. Picture: Met Police
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Angela Best s life may have been saved if mental health workers had not missed her relationship with a convicted serial killer because they were “entirely reliant” on him reporting it, a coroner has concluded.
Theodore Johnson murdered 51-year-old Angela Best at his his home in Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, on December 15 2016 after she ended their 20-year relationship and met another man.
He beat and strangled her after she went to his flat to help him with a passport application.
Johnson, who had two previous manslaughter convictions for killing his wife in 1981 and another former partner in 1992, spent less than five years in a secure north London mental health hospital before he was let out in October 1997.
The failure to identify the deception of Theodore Johnson - who murdered Angela Best after being released from a mental health hospital - “could happen again”, mental health expert Dr Shamir Patel said at her inquest.
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image captionTheodore Johnson met Angela Best while he was on unescorted leave from a secure mental hospital
A woman who was murdered by a man who had previously killed two other partners would probably be alive if authorities had investigated their relationship, a coroner has found.
Theodore Johnson, 67, strangled ex-girlfriend Angela Best in 2016.
St Pancras Coroner s Court heard they had been together for 20 years but nobody who was monitoring him suspected he was in a relationship.
Coroner Mary Hassell concluded Ms Best had been unlawfully killed.
The victim s family said they can never recover from what we have gone through following the brutal murder .
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