Child deaths: Coroner highlights bad connections between GP and specialist mental health service

Katica Perinovic stabbed herself and her children weeks after being diagnosed with first episode psychosis

A coroner has highlighted poor communication between a specialist mental health service and patient’s GP in the months before she killed herself and her three children.

Katica Perinovic, 42, fatally stabbed her three children aged seven, five and three eight weeks after being diagnosed with first episode psychosis in November 2020.