Psychiatric assessment health workers met Asad Niazi at McDonald’s in Kingston to assess his mental state in the days before he murdered Charito Cruz.

In her domestic homicide review, Davina James-Hanman criticised South West London and St George’s mental health trust (SWLSTG), saying child safeguarding and potential domestic violence risks were “not assessed in detail”.

Niazi, then 29, met assessors at the restaurant on September 7, having failed to show up for an appointment at Tolworth Hospital, and told them Cruz was seeing another man.

She was not, but had contacted an old boyfriend for support during the breakdown of the couple’s relationship.

Niazi also told practitioners he would take their daughter and move to Ireland.

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Six days earlier he had taken a non-fatal paracetamol overdose as a “cry for help” over the supposed infidelity.

Ms James-Hanman said in the report: “His thoughts and feelings about his partner and how he might respond towards her or his daughter were not assessed in detail.

“This should have included a discussion with him about whether there was any violence, abuse, aggression or extreme anger in the relationship and if so what impact this had on [the child].”

Practitioners took his claims to be a jilted lover “at face value” and did not check them with other agencies, deciding he “was not a danger to himself or others”, she added.

There was also “no weight” given to Niazi’s apparent threat to abduct his daughter.

Ian Higgins, SWLSTG’s named nurse for child safeguarding, said staff are now instructed to “think family”, and escalate their concerns to managers.

He added: “I have found that staff have been compliant and wanted to make use of the system that we have in place.”

Mr Higgins admitted meeting a patient at a fast-food restaurant “would not be the most normal practice”.

He said: “Sometimes in order to be able to see somebody, then staff have to be flexible.”