He became known to mental health services in January 1982, following which a series of brief admissions became the pattern over subsequent years, with states of highs and agitation, sexual disinhibition and aggression.

In September 1991, an independent inquiry, chaired by Herschel Prins, was set up by the Special Hospitals Service Authority.

The report identified how hospital admissions of black people were more likely to have police involvement, and include detainment and secure care.

[4] He moved to England with his mother when he was a child, was brought up in South London and was later naturalised British citizen.

[1] In the early 1980s, when in his 20s, he found it hard to hold down employment, became involved in small crimes and served brief prison sentences.

[1] A series of brief admissions became the pattern over the subsequent four years, with states of highs and agitation, sexual disinhibition, aggression and according to the hospital authorities he "lacked any insight".

[1] In January 1986, using a toy gun, he attempted to rob a betting shop and was subsequently arrested and examined in HM Prison Brixton.

[1] He received a three-year sentence and while being moved to HM Prison Grendon, he was noted to be in a state of paranoia and aggression, and at one time tried to hang himself.

[1] An independent inquiry was set up by the Special Hospitals Service Authority in September 1991, with Herschel Prins as the principal investigator.

(1993), it was authored by Prins, T. Backer-Holst, E. Francis and I. Keitch, and was highly critical of how the Criminal Justice System and mental health services treated Blackwood.

[2] The inquiry also gathered information from Blackwood's family, who held support in the diagnosis made by Aggrey Burke, a black psychiatrist.

The closed, in-bred community of nurses some from a military-type background, has little understanding of the needs and cultural differences of ethnic minority patients.

[4]The investigators heard hospital staff use the term "big, black and dangerous" so often in their inquiry that they incorporated it, with a question mark, as the sub-title of their report.

[2][7] The term reflected the racist stereotyping that allowed young black men to be restrained rather than receive treatment.

[3] Several addressed issues relating to ethnicity, including appointing black staff in senior management posts.

[11] However, he reported that in 1998, he was invited to revisit, and he noted: I was asked to return to Broadmoor to participate in a seminar examining how successful the hospital had been in developing its anti-racist policies and practices!