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07-07-2011, 11:20 AM
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| Canadian in Glasgow seeing Zombies Kills a Man
This happened back in October I did a search couldn't find a thread about it
anyway this chinese teen living in Canada is crazy and went to Glasgow because someone in his head told him to
while there he said everyone looked like zombies and he was being told he was going to get attacked by them
he eventually stabs a guy to death :/
the trial just ended and he's not guilty by reason of insanity Quote: Jury clears teen from Canada who killed Scottish man he believed was a zombie
The Canadian Press Jul 07, 2011 00:49:00 AM
GLASGOW, Scotland - A teenager from Canada who allegedly stabbed to death a 21-year-old man in Glasgow, Scotland after hearing voices saying the man was a zombie, has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.
Scottish media reports say a jury at the High Court in Glasgow cleared 19-year-old Tianhui Zhan of murdering 21-year-old Michael Davis on Oct. 13, 2010.
Davis had just finished work as a cleaner and was on his way to a second cleaning job when Zhan allegedly stabbed him three times. He underwent surgery but died from his injuries the following day.
According to the reports, the court heard Zhan picked his victim at random in an unprovoked attack because he believed Davis was a zombie who was going to attack him.
The court also heard that Zhan, who is of Chinese origin but lives with his parents in Canada, travelled to Glasgow after hearing voices saying he should go there.
He reportedly told a psychiatrist that he started seeing blood over the faces of people and was convinced they were zombies.
The teenager, whose home town is not known, is now receiving treatment at a local hospital for paranoid schizophrenia.
Media reports say the court heard that Zhan had suffered from mental health problems since the age of 14 and had consistently refused to take his medication.
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oh looks like the BBC reported about it yesterday BBC News - Tianhui Zhan killed Michael Davis while insane 
^^ there he is buying the knife 
the guy he killed, rip Quote:
Judge O'Grady said: "This all happened in a few minutes of madness.
"The deceased Mr Davis was a hard-working man who had his life snatched away from him and another very sick young man is likely to spend his life behind the walls of a secure unit.
"There are no winners in this case. Sadly there are some things in life that just can't be fixed."
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07-07-2011, 11:40 AM
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Originally Posted by StylinRed  Media reports say the court heard that Zhan had suffered from mental health problems since the age of 14 and had consistently refused to take his medication. | This bugs me sooo much. So much of this is preventable. I guess it's for his psychiatrist to actually predict that if Zhan was off his meds, he would kill someone...
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07-07-2011, 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by gars This bugs me sooo much. So much of this is preventable. I guess it's for his psychiatrist to actually predict that if Zhan was off his meds, he would kill someone... | +1
It's the responsibility of the health team and his parents/caregivers to monitor his mental health. How could his parents not know something was up if he wanted to fly to Glasgow all by himself?
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07-07-2011, 12:25 PM
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this world is fucking retarded. how can someone who killed a totally innocent hardworking guy just get off on an insanity plea? murder is fucking murder, i dont care what anyone says. people that are able to do these kinds of things are sick and twisted and have no place on this planet amongst the rest of us.
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07-07-2011, 12:32 PM
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You might not be ignorant, but when you say stuff like that, people will think you are. You might not want people to think you're dumb.
When people are this sick, they are not aware of their actions. If anybody should be held accountable, it's the parents, family and caregivers.
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07-07-2011, 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Teh Doucher this world is fucking retarded. how can someone who killed a totally innocent hardworking guy just get off on an insanity plea? | maybe cuz he's actually insane?
do you have/had mental problems? if not, you cant judge
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07-07-2011, 03:17 PM
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I guess similar to the Greyhound dude who decapitated random guy because he thought he was evil.
Hmm... also a Chinese guy killing a white person...
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07-07-2011, 03:29 PM
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reminds me of one of those freak of the week from Fringe (saw demon's face in his boss and killed him)
RIP to the victim in this tragedy
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07-07-2011, 05:42 PM
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too much cod zombies for him
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07-07-2011, 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Vansterdam too much cod zombies for him | left 4 dead zombies > cod zombies.
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07-07-2011, 06:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Teh Doucher this world is fucking retarded. how can someone who killed a totally innocent hardworking guy just get off on an insanity plea? murder is fucking murder, i dont care what anyone says. people that are able to do these kinds of things are sick and twisted and have no place on this planet amongst the rest of us. | normally id agree with that. lots of people 'get off' on insanity pleas when they are fully aware of what they are doing.
but this guy, was seriously bat shit insane. and will most likely spend the rest of his life in one big concrete building or another.
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07-07-2011, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Teh Doucher this world is fucking retarded. how can someone who killed a totally innocent hardworking guy just get off on an insanity plea? murder is fucking murder, i dont care what anyone says. people that are able to do these kinds of things are sick and twisted and have no place on this planet amongst the rest of us. | Given the choice between spending the rest of your life in prison or an insane asylum, I'd go with the normal prison every time, it's retarded how people think a mental disorder plea = someone is getting away scot free...
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07-07-2011, 11:09 PM
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Originally Posted by ilvtofu Given the choice between spending the rest of your life in prison or an insane asylum, I'd go with the normal prison every time, it's retarded how people think a mental disorder plea = someone is getting away scot free... | Read this. Issei Sagawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
scot free? you got it
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07-07-2011, 11:33 PM
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just rescue him from a closet
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07-07-2011, 11:48 PM
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^ Japan has some really backwards laws for crimes like rape and murder
but tragic story, RIP young man
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07-08-2011, 03:42 AM
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Originally Posted by iwantaskyline | thats some fucked up shit
RIP Michael Davis
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07-08-2011, 07:19 AM
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I don't know about what happens in other countries, but in Canada, you don't get off "scott free." the ruling here is called being 'not criminally responsible due to mental illness' and can be worse than being found guilty in some cases. Sure you don't go to a normal high/med/min security prison. But you also don't get a normal sentence either. Instead your sentenced to mental and psychiatric care in an indefinite sentence.
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07-08-2011, 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by iwantaskyline | That particular case is a rarity in and of itself.
His parent (or his dad specifically) is a powerful and prominent man in Japan. It is because of this influence that he was able to get his son out of trouble/prosecution.
This is NOT the case here or for the vast majority of cases that go with the insanity plea.
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07-08-2011, 09:34 AM
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