Swansea: man who killed father ‘desperately’ needed help, says family

Dan Harrison, who beat Kim Harrison to death, had suffered from paranoid schizophrenia for 15 years

The family of a man who beat his father to death an hour after absconding from a psychiatric ward has claimed the killer was not given the help he needed for his mental health problems in the years before he launched the fatal attack.

Dan Harrison, 37, punched, kicked and stamped on Kim Harrison, 68, a retired chest specialist, at his home in Clydach, Swansea, after becoming increasingly paranoid and believing that his mother, Jane Harrison, was in danger from her husband.