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Category Archives: Unsoundness of mind
Shooter dragged screaming from court
Date: 27/05/2011 Reporter: Unreported Source: Courier Mail P23 Synopsis: Jared Lee Loughner has been declared incompetent to stand trial after he went on a shooting rampage in Arizona, killing six people. Health experts concluded that Loughner suffers from schizophrenia, so … Continue reading
Posted in International, Mental health, Unsoundness of mind
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Rage comes with warning
Date: 18.05.2011 Source: The Courier Mail, p 3 Synopsis: The Queensland College of Forensic Psychologists chairman, Dr Gavan Palk has commented on the warning signs that estranged spouses should be looking for after the recent triple murder and suicide concerning … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal law, Mental health, Qld, Unsoundness of mind
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Uni ‘must sack Darcey shrink’
Date: 12/05/2011 Reporter: Stuart Rintoul Source:The Australian p 9 Synopsis: Liberal Senator Julian McGauran told parliament that Graham Burrows, the psychiatrist who gave evidence for the defence at the Darcey Freeman murder trial, should be sacked from his university job … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal law, Mental health, Unsoundness of mind
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Mental Illness Cause of Killings
Date: 20/04/2011 Reporter: Jodie Minus Source: The Australian, p. 5 Synopsis: A NSW Supreme Court judge has found Anthony Waterlow not guilty because of mental illness, following the murder of his sister and father in a brutal stabbing attack. Mr. … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal law, Mental health, NSW, Unsoundness of mind
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Freeman guilty of girl’s murder
Date: 29/03/11 Source: The Australian at p 3 Synopsis: Arthur Freeman has been found guilty of murdering his four-year-old daughter, Darcey, when he threw her from the top of Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge. The judge directed the jury that in … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal law, Unsoundness of mind
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Father guilty in bridge murder
Date: 29/03/2011 Source: The Courier Mail at p 2 Synopsis: In the Arthur Freeman murder trial, Defence counsel David Brustman alleged that his client’s “head was simply elsewhere” when he committed his crime. Freeman was driving his three children to … Continue reading
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