Police officer says: I was more worried about his knife than his mental health A POLICE officer who arrested a mentally-ill man days before he killed himself has said he was more worried about him having a knife than the state of his mental health. PC Alvin Doxon said Adam Stanmore wasn’t ‘physically injured’ when he found him sitting on a wall of a residential street in Blackbird Leys. However, he said he was ‘acting weirdly’. The police had been called to the area on May 18, 2019, after he shouted at a woman and asked her for a knife. She gave him a large silver blade which was ‘smaller than a machete’.