| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Peter Sutcliffe apparently no longer mentally ill! | |
| Posted by: | Joe Conneely | |
| Date/Time: | 01/12/15 18:54:00 |
| The original trial of Sutcliffe was pretty farcical based on Gordon Burns well researched book on the subject. The original plea of mental illness (attempted murder based on diminished responsibility because of his paranoid schizophrenia) agreed between the prosecution and the defence before the trial started, was rejected by the trial judge after he had demanded a detailed reasoning of the argument to be made by the prosecution team and then did not accept it. The prosecution then had to go through a 180 degree turn and embark on a demolition job of the four psychiatric experts whose reports they had previously accepted. By all accounts it was a pretty brutal cross examination of each of the four experts. He was inevitably found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment but after starting in Pankhurst ended up in Broadmoor with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia so took matters back to where it all started before his trial. On Andy's comments about attacks against prisoners, Sutcliffe has suffered a number of attacks across the years in both general prison and Broadmoor (one resulting in the loss of an eye) and as for release the 2010 High Court ruling after an appeal by Sutcliffe that he should face life imprisonment probably seals his future. |