Balcony Plunge Dad Not Guilty Of Murder - Page 2

Neil · 23-01-2008, 14:42

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Originally Posted by jackyalex

How can a person claim insanity ? how would an insane person know they were insane

When they found them self stood over the mutilated body of a young lady

Neil · 23-01-2008, 14:42

When I murdered my 1st wife I claimed insanitary, I drowned her in the toilet.

jackyalex · 23-01-2008, 14:43

your avatar says it all neil lol

WillowTheWhisp · 23-01-2008, 14:58

He isn't claiming he didn't do anything wrong. He's claiming he doesn't remember doing it. There's a big difference.

jackyalex · 23-01-2008, 15:05

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

He isn't claiming he didn't do anything wrong. He's claiming he doesn't remember doing it. There's a big difference.

he did say to the judge and jury, This man you see in front of you wasnt the man who jumped off the forth floor balcony with his two kids, that is what he said.

WillowTheWhisp · 23-01-2008, 15:12

Yes, and that doesn't mean that he considers that what he did was not wrong.

Lilly · 23-01-2008, 17:28

Has he been cleared altogether?

The article I've seen says he's been cleared of murder but what about manslaughter?

I don't think that he was planning all week to kill his kids, he says it was a split second decision but nevertheless he did kill his son, so surely that's manslaughter.

Margaret Pilkington · 23-01-2008, 17:30

This man was, and still is(to a lesser degree) mentally ill.
He has been seen by qualified psychiatrists who considered that at the time he committed the dreadful act, he was not sane.
He will live with the results of his actions for the rest of his life, namely the loss of his family.
If we are to believe all we read about this case, then maybe his wife should shoulder some of the responsibility. She was going to leave him and had told him that the marriage was over....so why take him to a foreign country, where there would be no family support network for him. He had had a past history of depression, two brothers having committed suicide, and his grandmother having died just a month earlier.
My great goodnight, this is enough to push the sanest of us over the edge.

Margaret Pilkington · 23-01-2008, 17:31

I think he has been cleared on the grounds of 'diminished responsibility' and it has been recommended that he be placed in a mental health institution.

panther · 23-01-2008, 18:38

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Originally Posted by flashytart

lol cheers for taking the karma, it made me laugh so much

LOL you as well, wonder who that was...emmmm

flashy · 23-01-2008, 18:51

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Originally Posted by panther

LOL you as well, wonder who that was...emmmm

lol bet we can both guess

panther · 23-01-2008, 18:53

well who ever it was, didnt leave their name, which i thought was very rude...

,and noticed it was someone with little rep power...

blazey · 23-01-2008, 21:23

Its funny but every time you give rep or get rep you mention it in the thread and have a conversation about it. Wouldn't it be ironic if you had been giving it eachother

i actually paused before I carried on that sentence which I no doubt would've recieved an infraction for, but its nice to see that your sticking together.

panther · 24-01-2008, 09:36

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Originally Posted by blazey

Its funny but every time you give rep or get rep you mention it in the thread and have a conversation about it. Wouldn't it be ironic if you had been giving it eachother

i actually paused before I carried on that sentence which I no doubt would've recieved an infraction for, but its nice to see that your sticking together.

stop talking poo