Balcony Plunge Dad Not Guilty Of Murder
 

"Incapable of murder", sent to a psychiatric unit.

John Hogan To Give Account Of Crete Balcony Plunge |Sky News|World News

BBC NEWS | England | Bristol | Hotel leap man cleared of murder

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yeah ive just heard about that on the news, makes you wonder doesnt it

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My gut feeling is that the decision is very dubious. Did he actually have any previous mental health problems? Haven't been keeping up with this so I may have missed something but the headline made me feel quite uneasy.
I feel very sorry for the mother.

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OMG, i cant believe that...is this because he doesnt feel guilty for what hes done?.......mental or not he should be jailed...what a load of b*ll*cks

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i think they are all to frequently using mental health as an excuse nowadays

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as shakermaker says, i feel sorry for the mother too, that woman must be devastated!!

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Claiming insanity isn't the easy option. Many people who ARE insane prefer to claim they are guilty of murder to actually have a set sentence, as with claims of insanity you dont normally get set a specified time to spend in the institution and you can be kept there for life, as he most likely will be based on the fact he still doesnt see whats wrong with what he did.

Thats why dangerous people with mental problems end up back on the streets to reoffend. Nothing forces you to claim insanity, but if you do there is uncertainty. Much better to go to prison, be good and be out after two thirds of your sentence.

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He had 2 brothers who committed suicide and he had recently stopped taking his anti depressant meds.

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did the mother not realise he was off his rocker??
surely she must have known if he was depressed

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Not everyone who is depressed wants to kill themself though, and if she hadn't realised he'd stopped taking medication she'd not have thought there was a risk.

Not many people consider the risk of their husbands killing themselves and their children because they suffer from something that affects 1 in 4 adults or soemthing like that.

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i'm on anti depressants, and at times i feel like killing someone :D

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anyone i know?:rolleyes:

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yes definately, sometimes several ;)

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

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

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

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

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your avatar says it all neil lol

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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.

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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. :confused:

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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.

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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.

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

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lol bet we can both guess ;)

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well who ever it was, didnt leave their name, which i thought was very rude...:rolleyes:,and noticed it was someone with little rep power...:D

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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 :rolleyes:

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.

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stop talking poo:dummy2: