Mentally Unfit To Be Tried In Criminal Court

28 February 2014 Last updated at 02:59

Broadmoor Hospital: Inside a Victorian 'lunatic asylum'

"It is 150 years since Broadmoor Hospital opened its doors to patients of both sexes who were deemed mentally unfit to be tried in criminal courts. Now a new hospital is being built next door, with plans to redevelop some of the original Victorian buildings.

Take a look back at what life in the Berkshire hospital used to be like - and see what the future holds - with archivist Mark Stevens the author of Broadmoor Revealed, and Broadmoor's clinical director Dr Kevin Murray."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26335033

Oh My, What Has Happened?

 

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Addendum (15/5/13)

ca. 15/5/13

POLICE WELFARE CALL 

"The police claim that because some random stranger (not my doctor or a relative) called them and claimed that I had threatened to commit suicide on my twitter feed… and despite the fact that this was not supported by any actual evidence …this entitled them to ignore all established protocol and remove my rights as a valid and credible person in my own right… and treat me like I was a dangerous mental health patient.

Me and my family are currently grieving a suicide, but we are not suicidal… nor would I ever consider leaving my family in such a way… nor would I post about such a subject in that way on twitter! Have you lost your senses? What right do you have to assume I have lost mine.

The police had no rights to undermine my mental health credibility in such an abusive appallingly prejudice and aggressive way (certainly not on an unsupported hoax call) they had no right to force me to ‘bring in’ two adults to speak for me … what if I could not find two adults to speak for me that night?"

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