Jonathan Dick, a paranoid schizophrenic who stalked his younger brother to a shopping centre before killing him with a samurai sword, is found not guilty of murder by way of mental impairment.
A paranoid schizophrenic who stalked his younger brother to a shopping centre before killing him with a samurai sword has been found not guilty of murder by way of mental impairment.Justice Lex Lasry found Jonathan Dick thought harm would come to his family if he did not attack his brother
But Mr Dick, now 42, thought that he would not go to prison over the attack, which took place over 66 seconds, because he would be "transported to the future". Justice Lasry also accepted Mr Dick's mental impairment defence on accusations that he stalked and attempted to murder a childhood friend. As David left the elevator, Mr Dick unsheathed a samurai sword that was hidden in a spirit-level case and swung, striking his younger brother across the face with a double-handed blow."The cause of death was a catastrophic haemorrhage," Justice Lasry said.
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