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Schizophrenic man pleads not guilty for Forest Hill train stabbing (of 2016)

SE23.life

22 Aug '17

Original incident:

SE23 Forum – 13 Dec 16

Stabbing - 12th Dec 2016

Around roughly 1:20 pm

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Adrian Brown, 38, experienced a “severe psychotic episode” when he stabbed Muhammed Ali on a London Overground train on 12 December 2016.

Judge Deborah Taylor QC ordered that Brown should be detained indefinitely.

She added he would only be released on the order of a judge or the government.

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Detaining Brown indefinitely under section 37 of the Mental Health Act, Judge Taylor said: "You have a long history of psychotic illness and on that day you were suffering and you continue to suffer from paranoid schizophrenia.