Hospital patient who tried to kill nurse fails to turn up at court for sentencing
A transgender man found guilty of the attempted murder of a nurse in West Bromwich, avoided being sentenced after failing to turn up to court.
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Kieffer Sutton, previously of Tickford Street, Newport Pagness, Buckinghamshire, failed to show up at Wolverhampton Crown Court despite previously being remanded in a female prison.
Sutton was found guilty of attempted murder at a trial that was held in January, following an incident at Heath Lane Hospital, on Heath Lane, West Bromwich, on July 2 last year.