REPORT OF AN INDEPENDENT INQUIRY ... - Hundred Families

She saw him on three occasions and told the Inquiry Panel that there was nothing to indicate he
posed a risk to his family. He arrived for his appointments on time, he engaged with Ms Stewart,
he was articulate, his behaviour was positive and he completed his community service. Ms
Stewart felt that Chandran’s relationship with his father needed to be explored particularly
because he appeared to feel unable to meet the criteria expected by his father, but did not have
an opportunity to do so in the time she worked with him before he killed his father.
17. Having lost his job at WH Smith, Chandran applied for a lot of jobs but failed to find
employment. He wondered whether there was anything else he could do and decided to begin
studying again. He enrolled on a one year course at Tower Hamlets College. He told us that this
was to study creative computer and graphic design.
18. Chandran started his course but said that, at half term in October 2001, he went to his flat and
became very lonely. He explained that he had problems dealing with his entitlement to benefits
and felt he was unable to live on the money he was receiving. He described to us becoming
“stressed out”, saying that he was eating only bread and baked beans, was unable to sleep and
started hallucinating. He said that he started seeing things and people moving around in his flat
and “started reading a spiritual book to get rid of the devil”. His account of his condition at the
time included that he “thought someone was sticking daggers” into him and woke up thinking a
vampire had bitten him during the night. He thought the man upstairs was the devil and told the
Inquiry Panel how he set fire to some white spirits in his sitting room because he thought the
devil did not like fire. Biju Ramkrishnan told us that there were smoke marks caused by this fire
in the sitting room. Chandran painted his flat in strange colours. His sister described it vividly as
changing “into like a devil house. Painting everywhere, ceiling, floor, bed sheet, wall” and said
that the neighbours reported to her that he was making a lot of noise.
19. Chandran told us that he went to see a GP at about the end of October 2001 asking for sleeping
tablets but he was told he was fine and it would be better if he had a natural sleep. There is no
record of a consultation with a GP at this time in Chandran’s notes and we have therefore not
been able to discover any more information about the visit he says he made.
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