Trycia Balhous
- August 14, 2007
Late in the year of 2006, Ntsimbi had taken her child,
Trycia and they move to London. Previously living in Paris, with the father
of her
child, Ntsimbi had, even then, displayed behavior
that was not of a
normal mind. Trycia's father had tried to get custody
of her by telling
the French authorities that Ntsimbi had thrown
the baby against a wall and had then banged a knife on the floor. Custody
was denied to him
and Ntsimbi was given custody of the baby. She
then moved them
both to London.
Neighbors had told police that Ntsimbi Galtricia
was not a well woman and they were right. Several times in the weeks before
she killed her
daughter, neighbors had called police to complain
about the odd way
Ntsimbi was behaving. A shopkeeper had complained
that she was in
his shop many times saying he was her husband and
the father of her
daughter, Trycia. This was not true at all and
eventually Ntsimbi
had to be banned from the store:
"She always used to come in with her little
girl.
Whenever she came in she told me that I was
her
husband and the father of her child and she
told me
to come back home. Once she tried to get
into
the office"
Huseyin Alacayir
Another man had the same problems with her when
she would come
to his barber shop and say her husband:
"Come home, everything's going to be all right"
Dougie
Ntsimbi had been arrested after the complaints were
filed and she was referred to mental health services and that team had
found her to be
fit and took no further action:
"We are looking into the background of the
family as
part of our investigation but we can confirm
a woman in
her 20s on 8 August was arrested on suspicion
of
harassment of a shopkeeper. She was bailed
pending
further inquiries."
A police spokeswoman
Social services had done an evaluation on Ntsimbi
after the complaints had been filed. This mental evaluation had been done
only six days prior to the death of Trycia. Ntsimbi was found fit and her
daughter was left with her, even though she had been arrested shortly before
she stabbed the child to death.
"She was assessed by our mental health team
on 9
August but she was not found to be suffering
from a
mental health disorder"
A spokesman for Barking and Dagenham council
The spokesperson went on to say that they had recieved
reports from
the police about Ntsimbi's behavior:
"Crucially, the information we received from
the
police didn't raise any concerns over the
welfare of
the child. We didn't take action over the
child."
In August of 2007, Ntsimbi's daughter, Trycia, was
found dead a
little after midnight. Paramedics were called to
her home in Barking
Essex and there they found the little girl stabbed
to death and her
mother was suffering from stab wounds. Ntsimbi
was taken to the
hospital and was described as being in serious,
though not in any life
threatening danger. A case review done by a multi
agency case review team started an investigation. Barking And Dagenham
Council said
that Trycia was not on the child protection
register and had not
been under their care.
Neighbors voiced their concerns to police before
she had died, about how this child was being raised. One complaint said
that Trycia was allowed to run in the street and once her mother had hurt
the child by picking her up by her arm in a rough way and dropping her
onto the sidewalk:
"I felt very sorry for her little girl because
despite
everything she was so happy and she loved
playing
with the other children outside. I said to
the police
officer that they should take the kid off
the mother
because she was clearly not very well. I
am disgusted
that no one has done anything to keep the
little girl
safe. This seems to me as if it was completely
preventable if they had taken action sooner."
Kay James - neighbor
An 11 year old neighbor brought some flowers and
a teddy bear and placed it by the police barrier. There was a message left
with the items she placed there for Balthous:
"To a little angel, who was sent to bud on
earth and
bloom in heaven. God bless you, from your
neighbour"
Hannah Nolan
On May 12, 2008 Judge David Paget said that social
services failed to
take the police seriously about the condition of
Ntsimbi:
"The forensic medical examiner was sufficiently
troubled
to say there might be a fixed delusional
disorder. It seems
a thousand pities in retrospect, and of course
hindsight is a
wonderful thing. That his views were not
followed up on more precisely - it might have avoided this tragedy."
Dr Caroline Arden said that Ntsimbi was suffering
from Paranoid chizophrenia and that she was mentally ill. Caroline
Arden also said that Ntsimbi had not planned the attack on her daughter,
that it was
unprovoked and impulsive. She said that Ntsimbi
was still exhibiting
that same behavor and needed to be treated.
Ntsimbi admittted to manslaughter on the grounds
of diminished responsibility. Judge Paget sentenced her to be detained
indefinitely under the Mental Health Act. In the interest of public safety,
Ntsimbi
was admitted to the John Howard Centre in Hackney.
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