John Corkran News Today

By Jimmy Ellingham of RNZ
Police had been set to charge the former lead psychiatrist at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital child and adolescent unit with ill-

Police had been set to charge the former lead psychiatrist with ill-treating patients.

Police had been preparing charges against the former lead psychiatrist at Lake Alice psychiatric hospital, before it was deemed he was too ill to face trial, documents reveal.

Former Lake Alice Hospital nurse John Corkran is dying and will not face trial on charges of cruelty to children in the 1970s.
Corkran, 91, has stage four

Judge says Corkran would 'be left as a mere spectator in his own criminal trial'.

The former lead psychiatrist at the Lake Alice psychiatric hospital's child and adolescent unit died in January without facing justice or action from a professional body despite allegations against him emerging decades ago.

By RNZ  A former lead psychiatrist at Lake Alice hospital - who was accused of torturing children at the facility in the 1970s - has died.  Dr Selwyn Leeks

Dr Selwyn Leeks was accused of using electric shocks and paralysing drugs to punish patients at the Lake Alice child and adolescent unit, which operated near Marton, in the 1970s.