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Nearly two years after their matter was highlighted one of two men, who had been lost in the Psychiatric Hospital’s system for more than 30 years after receiving Her Majesty’s Pleasure, will be going home today. The other will also be discharged today but will remain at the facility’s quarter-way house, on a voluntary basis, until rental accommodation can be found. The matters have prompted Justice Randall Worrell to suggest …
Two men who have been housed at the Psychiatric Hospital for more than half their lives can be released once the necessary financial and accommodation systems are in place. That was the recommendation of Senior Registrar at the Black Rock, St Michael hospital Dr Ronald Chase on Thursday, when he gave a progress report to Justice Randall Worrell on Theo Bourne,
A man housed at the Psychiatric Hospital for more than 40 years on Thursday pleaded to be set free as a High Court judge disclosed that while authorities are “fighting” to get him out, all systems are still not in place for him to be reintegrated into society.“I need to be free!” declared Theo Bourne, one of two men who have been kept at the Black Rock, St Michael institution for a combined 76 years but have been deemed fit to re-enter society.“I have been away from society for 42 years . . . . For years I have been at the Psychiatric Hospital and I never mentally relax,” said the ...
After more than 40 years at the Psychiatric Hospital, Theo Bourne let his voice be heard when he made only his second appearance before the No. 2 Supreme Court yesterday. Choked with emotion and speaking so quickly at times as to be unintelligible, the 63-year-old declared: “I need to be free. I have gone through the programmes for almost 15 years, worked in the storeroom for another 15, 16; moved …
Fit to re-enter society. That was the assessment, given by psychiatrist Dr Ronald Chase, of long lifers John Brathwaite and Theo Bourne who have spent a combined 74 years locked away at the Psychiatric Hospital. However, said Chase, the two would first need to spend some transitional time in the hospital’s quarter-way house, in addition to reacquainting themselves with society and members of their family. The senior psychiatrist made the …