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Despite outcry from a former Hartford police officer who nearly died in a vicious stabbing, the state board that oversees psychiatric commitments voted Friday to uphold the decision to transfer Jill Kidik’s attacker from the maximum-security Whiting Forensic Hospital to a unit with less security and more privileges for patients.
A man who stabbed his wife in 2009 and was found not guilty by reason of insanity appeared in court last week for the first time in more than a decade.
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The Globe and Mail Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press Nearly three years after he deliberately ran down pedestrians on Toronto’s busy Yonge Street, killing 10 people and injuring many others, a 28-year-old man has been convicted of carrying out the deadliest mass killing in the city’s history. After a seven-week trial held virtually last fall a...
Wed, 03 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC Judge Anne Molloy rejected Minassian's defence that his autism caused such mental deficits he did not know that mass murder was wrong © SOCIAL MEDIA / HANDOUTS Top row, left to right: Anne Marie D'Amico, 30, Munir Najjar, 85, Andrea Bradden, 33, Sohe Chung, 22, Betty Forsyth, 94. Bottom row, left to right: Eddie Kang, 45, Renuka Amarasingha, 45, Geraldine Brady, 83, Ji Hun Kim, 22, Dorothy Sewell, 80.The man who drove a rented van down Toronto sidewalks trying to kill as many people as he could has been found guilty of murdering 10 people and attempting to kill 16 ...
Article content Six weeks of evidence, endless testimony from eminent forensic psychiatrists, hours of recorded interviews and confession after confession after confession. And now, at last, admitted mass killer Alek Minassian is about to learn his fate. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or MANDEL: Not criminally responsible? Toronto van killer to learn verdict Back to video Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy will deliver her verdict Wednesday at 10 a.m. over YouTube where the only issue she must determine is this: Should Minassian, 28, be...