Sexual psychopath strangled + mutated a woman. Medical evidence said he couldn't control irrisistable impulses. This is irrelevant; quashed under attempt to define abnormality of mind as a state of mind that the 'reasonable man would find abnormal'
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LLoyd
C of A said substantial was not total, nor did it mean trivial or minimal, it was somewhere inbetween
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Seers
Killed wife whilst having depression. D had to be boardering on insane for DR to suceed. C of A said comparisons with insanity are unhelpful + substantial meant more than trivial but not total or absolute.
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Hobson
Killed her abusive husband. DR never raised as defence but should've been. Example of battered wife syndrome as a recognised medical condition
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Dowds
D stabbed partner in frenzied knife attack after drinking heavily. Voluntary + temporary intoxication not DR.
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Wood
D woke to V giving him oral sex. D had been drinking. Quashed conviction saying Tandy view wasn't appropriate. ADS could be considered as possible abnormality of mind.
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Dietschmann
D felt disrespect to dead aunt, so stamped V to death. Suffering from severe grief but also drunk. Abnormality of mental functioniong doesn't have to be the sole cause of D's acts. Even if intoxicated, jury would lower to MS.
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Tandy
D believed her husband sexually abused daughter so strangled the daughter. D was an alcoholic. If D is merely drunk + there is no brain injury, DR will fail.
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Stewart
D having ADS won't amount to abnormality. It depends on the nature and extent of ADS.
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Heginbotham
100 y/o committed mercy killing to save wife the stress of moving to another home. Defence suceeded as D had been suffering from medical condition at the time. Stretching DR to the limit.
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Price
Mercy killing by drowning terminally ill son. Contrast with Heginbotham. If killed due to medical condition, DR will be available.
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Sanderson
D had argument with girlfriend + hit her 100 times with a cricket bat + killed her. D was suffering from paranoid psychosis.
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Vinagre
D suffered from 'othello syndrome' + killed wife believing she was having an affair. Sucessful with DR, but C of A said othello syndrome was flimsy + wives should be protected against this
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Martin
Shot 2 burglars when they broke into his house. One shot when leaving. D had paranoid personality disorder.
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LLoyd
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C of A said substantial was not total, nor did it mean trivial or minimal, it was somewhere inbetween
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