Ahsan Zia, 33, was suffering from delusions and hallucinations involving the late Queen and that there was a plot to rape and kill him, Newcastle Crown Court heard.
He launched a 28-second attack on Michael Matthews, 55, in his victim's room on the acute Fellside Wing of Newcastle's Hadrian Clinic in April last year.
If the races were reversed we'd be seeing this a bit further up the webpage, I suspect...
Mr Dry said Zia had used cannabis the day before the attack, but there was no evidence that this had any influence on his behaviour when he lashed out.
No, just a stunning coincidence. Like all the other cases.
Consultant forensic psychiatrist Dr Pablo Vandenabeele, via videolink, told the court Zia suffered from a treatment-resistant form of paranoid schizophrenia.
We put down rabid dogs. We don't send them to an animal shelter.
Zia will be treated at the maximum security Rampton Hospital, the judge said.
Another triumph for the mental health advocates, no doubt.
28 seconds. Luckily someone was there with a stop watch to record the time after all if it had been 30 seconds or above there would be hell to pay.
ReplyDeleteI presume they had CCTV to judge the time by. Which just goes to show how useless CCTV is except for 'after the act' washup.
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