“These people can, and should, be held responsible for what they do,” he said. “It’s absolutely incorrect to say anyone with psychosis is incapable of governing their actions.”
Secondly, the court must decide whether an accused person’s mental illness had caused, or contributed to, the crime being committed. In the case of Alan Hawe, there was no diagnosis of clinical depression or psychosis during his life., director of the Central Mental Hospital, was asked by the coroner’s court to review all of Hawe’s medical notes so an opinion as to his mental health could be set out at the inquest.Prof Kennedy concluded that for almost a decade Alan Hawe suffered from depressive and anxiety-based symptoms.
Under Irish law, a person charged with murder but who cites mental illness could be convicted of murder, a crime that carries a life sentence.
In 🇮🇪 ? More crystal ball gazing. I can see him in CMH after all the so called experts blamed the great scapegoat 'mental illness'.