A preventable death; delusional Aspergers vulnerable to psychotic episodes.

Porrit in Belconnen Remand centre … three dudes decide to take a hidin’ to the “mutha-killing-wimp” – but he cleaned them up almost one-handed. saw it. He is not the nice, soft kid-next door.

A very unfortunate combination of three personalities: the mother a monster, the child with Aspergers, the father apparently weak and unable to modify the monster’s behaviour during the interactions of a long marriage. Thus she will have become worse, the father will have retreated, and the son was driven somewhat mad. Anyone who has worked or lived with a monstrous, warped control freak will be able to relate to some degree with that young man’s experience. How very sad.

I think so many people plead insanity in murder cases, because really there has to be something a bit wrong to actually commit a murder – especially one that isn’t in the heat of the moment anger.

I’m not a shrink, but nor, I suspect, is anyone else on this thread. If someone who has relevant qualifications and experience says that someone has a condition that would affect their culpability, and there is no evidence going the other way, that probably means the court is likely to accept the expert’s opinion. The general knowledge and impressions of the mob are irrelevant, no matter how sincere.

What a load if horseshit. Google aspergers and famous people and you’ll see that many from Bob Dylan to Einstein have this. Young GP is a strange yet extremely smart bloke (95 TER, Maths genius) but dimished responsibility because of it??? I think not. Just unable to let his greviances go to the point where he stewed on it a year after moving out and not seeing his mother.

from wired “and a tendency toward repetitive behavior.”

that explains the 57 times!

I have Aspergers and I can say uncategorically that this defence is erroneous and a red herring. He’s as guilty as sin and this is a desperation tactic. String him up!

“difficulties in communicating at a social level and “monotone, almost robotic speech”. Other evidence presented to the court of Porritt’s unerring resolve to see things through to finality, interest in computers and an inability to read situations and other people’s feelings, were also indicative of Asperger’s.”

DAMN!! Every Manager I’ve had and half the people I have ever worked with have Asperger’s!!

I have teh Assburgers!!!

Porritt rather, completely forgot the name of the man accused of the stabstabstabbitystabstab…(repeat ad infinitum)