A man accused of raping a woman at knifepoint was so delusional at the time of his offending he believed the alleged attack was morally justified, a court has been told.
A month earlier, the 38-year-old allegedly touched a woman on the backside outside a building in Zetland, in the city's inner south. Today, crown witness and forensic psychiatrist David Greenberg, who met with Mirza twice after the alleged crimes, told the court the 38-year-old truly believed he was being programmed to commit offences.
He began experiencing side effects such as decreased sexual arousal and stopped taking the medication after a few months.Mirza told the psychiatrist the organisation behind the video game he believed he was in had placed women in his life to get him back to his normal sexual arousal level.