India, May 14 -- The majority of people with psychosis who commit violent offences are known to mental health services which struggle to meet the needs of this group.

Three out of four people who committed serious violent offences in NSW and were found not guilty due to mental illness had visited at least one mental health service prior to the attack, a study led by UNSW Sydney has found.

The study, which was reported today in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, examined 477 cases of violent offences committed by people with a mental illness that were recorded by the NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal between 1990 and 2016. It found that while most of the offenders had contact with health services prior to the violent o...