(AP) State experts have found the man charged with shooting and killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 had untreated mental illness but was legally sane at the time of the attack, lawyers said Tuesday. The results of the sanity […]
(ABC-Australia) In the hours before a 16-year-old boy stabbed a bishop in an alleged terrorism attack at a Sydney church, his parents’ frantic calls to him went unanswered. Two days earlier, the boy was in tears over the sudden death of a […]
(AP) Muslim groups in Australia on Friday criticized the disparity in the police response to two stabbing attacks in Sydney this month, saying it had created a perception of a double standard and further alienated the country’s minority Muslim community. The Australian […]
(BBC) The deaths of three men murdered by a man convicted under anti-terror laws in a Reading park were avoidable, an inquest has concluded. Khairi Saadallah killed James Furlong, David Wails, and Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in Forbury Gardens in June 2020. He was […]
(BBC) A man who set two worshippers on fire as they left mosques has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order. Mohammed Abbkr, who has schizophrenia, sprayed petrol before setting alight Hashi Odowa, 82, and Mohammed Rayaz, [70], in London and Birmingham. […]
(BBC) A 44-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to terror charges at the start of a trial for the murder of two people in a gun attack on two bars in Oslo. A three-minute police video was shown as the trial began, […]
(Radio NZ) Authorities’ failure to provide the LynnMall terror attacker with religious support in custody may have contributed to his radicalisation and later violence, a lawyer for his family says. Ahamed Samsudeen seriously injured five people in a stabbing at a West […]
(Toronto Star) Convicted Toronto terrorist Rehab Dughmosh has again refused to sign a peace bond that would have allowed her to go free. Instead, Dughmosh will spend another six months in jail. Prosecutors requested the unusual terrorism peace bond over fears that […]
(Toronto Star) There is reason to fear that a convicted Toronto terrorist may commit a new terrorist attack, a judge found Thursday, ordering Rehab Dughmosh to sign a legal document promising not to violate any laws for the next two years. It […]
(ITV) An inquest into the deaths of three men stabbed to death in Reading has heard authorities were repeatedly warned about the terrorist’s mental health. Giving evidence today, the CEO of Reading Refugee Support Group said he wrote to health and probation officials […]
(AFP) There was a clear failure in the psychiatric care of the radicalised Islamist suffering from mental troubles who stabbed a German tourist to death in central Paris at the weekend before being arrested, France’s interior minister said Monday. The attack close […]
(AFP) The man who stabbed a tourist to death near the Eiffel Tower in Paris swore allegiance to the Islamic State group in a video posted to social media, French anti-terrorist prosecutors said Sunday. Known to the authorities as a radicalised Islamist […]
(BBC) A man who set fire to two elderly worshippers after they left mosques has been convicted of attempted murder. Mohammed Abbkr, 29, sprayed petrol on and set alight Hashi Odowa, 82, and Mohammed Rayaz, 70, during attacks in London and Birmingham. […]
(AP) A federal judge on Monday ordered the release of a Maryland man who has been imprisoned for more than four years on charges that he plotted Islamic State group-inspired attacks at an airport and at a shopping and entertainment complex in […]
(Euro Weekly) Two people were attacked by a mentally ill man who chased them with a machete on Sunday evening. Catalonian police managed to apprehend and arrest a Moroccan national who chased people through the streets while wielding a machete, but that […]
(Denver Gazette) After a day of testimony between dueling psychiatrists, the question of whether or not the gunman accused of killing 10 people in a Boulder King Soopers will stand trial is now in the hands of a Boulder County district judge. […]
(NY Times) A military judge ruled on Thursday that a defendant in the Sept. 11 case who was tortured by the C.I.A. was ineligible for a death-penalty trial, adopting a finding that the prisoner was too psychologically damaged to help defend himself. […]
(AP) A military medical panel has concluded that one of the five 9/11 defendants held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base has been rendered delusional and psychotic by the torture he underwent years ago while in CIA custody. The findings heighten uncertainty […]
(BBC) A PhD student accused of plotting to make a drone capable of delivering a bomb was “fascinated” by the Islamic State group because he wanted to argue against their views, a court has heard. At Birmingham Crown Court, prosecutors have alleged […]
(NY Times) A military medical board has concluded that Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who is accused of conspiring in the Sept. 11 attacks, has a mental illness that makes him incompetent to either face trial or plead guilty in the death penalty case, […]
(AP) A Colorado man charged with killing 10 people at a Boulder supermarket in 2021 is mentally competent to move toward trial, prosecutors announced Wednesday, raising the possibility that criminal proceedings stalled for over 1 1/2 years could resume soon. In a […]
(NCA NewsWire) A man accused of making an alarming bomb threat on board an international flight will remain behind bars on remand for two months amid concerns for his mental health. Muhammad Arif caused chaos on a Malaysia Airlines flight earlier this […]
(Jewish News) A man will be detained in a secure medical facility after being sentenced over a series of attacks on members of the Jewish community in Hackney. Abdullah Qureshi, 30, was handed a hospital order on Thursday after he was convicted […]
(AFP) Psychiatric experts in Norway are at odds over the mental health, and associated legal responsibility, of a shooter who killed two people on the sidelines of Oslo’s 2022 Pride festival, police said Thursday. On the night of June 25, 2022, a […]
(NCA NewsWire) A Canberra man who is accused of causing chaos on-board an international flight when he claimed to have a bomb will remain behind bars for at least another two days while he undergoes mental health assessment. Muhammad Arif, 45, was […]
(NCA NewsWire) The man at the centre of the mid-air drama which forced an international flight to be turned around will make a bid to be released on bail on Wednesday after his lawyer flagged he was suffering from mental health issues. […]
(KLAS) A 23-year-old woman who wounded her blind date with a knife in a Las Vegas-area hotel room in retaliation for a U.S. drone strike that killed an Iranian leader will avoid prison and instead serve three years’ probation, a judge ruled […]
(KMGH) A young Castle Rock man has been charged with terrorism-related crimes after attempting to board an international flight last week to join the Islamic State (ISIS) and serve as one of its fighters in Iraq, according to a complaint filed in […]
(Tampa Bay Times) A Tampa man who pledged his allegiance to Islamic militants and planned attacks in the Tampa Bay area was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in federal prison. Muhammed Momtaz AlAzhari, 26, pleaded guilty in February to attempting to provide […]
(AFP) The man accused of stabbing four toddlers and two adults at a playground in a French town last week has been moved to a psychiatric hospital, sources said on Wednesday. The suspect, named as Abdalmasih H, was charged with attempted murder […]
(Lehigh Valley Live) A Saudi national accused of stealing a school bus in New Jersey and driving it to Pennsylvania before getting caught in the Poconos is not mentally competent to stand trial, a U.S. federal judge has ruled. Bader Alzahrani, 22, […]
(National-UAE) Many young survivors of the Manchester Arena bombing were “let down by adults in authority” as they dealt with mental trauma in the aftermath, a study has found six years after the attack. Britain’s Prince William hailed the youngsters as “an […]
(Brussels Times) For several weeks, the victims of the 22 March 2016 attacks came to lay a little of their burden of painful memories before the Brussels court of assizes. On Wednesday, an army psychologist lifted a corner of the veil on […]
(AP) A Spanish judge has ordered a psychiatric evaluation for a Moroccan man held in the January slaying of a church officer in the southern city of Algeciras. Authorities identified the alleged assailant in the Jan. 26 machete attack as 25-year-old Yassine […]
(Arab News) A member of a Deash cell known as “The Beatles” faces dying alone in an American prison, described by an ex-warden as a “place not designed for humanity,” after his appeal for a sanity assessment was rejected. Having been given […]
(Breitbart) A Tunisian migrant attacked French police with a knife in southern France this week, yelling the phrase “Allahu akbar!” The incident took place in the commune of Hyères, which lies on the Mediterranean Sea near Toulon. It saw the Tunisian, said to […]
(AP) Lawyers for a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 confirm he has schizophrenia, with one expert finding he was “approaching catatonia” before being moved to the state mental hospital for treatment. The defense information, contained […]
(BBC) A failed asylum seeker who killed his 87-year-old “surrogate grandmother” has been detained indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital. Shahin Darvish-Narenjbon, 34, stabbed Brenda Blainey in her North Yorkshire home in “circumstances of appalling brutality” on 5 January 2022. He had been […]
(AFP) The Moroccan suspect held in connection with a machete attack on two Spanish churches, killing a verger and badly injuring a priest, will undergo psychiatric testing, a court said Tuesday. The case is being handled by the Audiencia Nacional, Spain’s top […]
(Toronto Star) One of the men convicted in a high-profile terrorism case involving a plot to derail a Via Rail train wants access to a psychiatric report about his co-accused, arguing that its findings could result in him having his convictions overturned. […]
(AFP) A man has been charged with attempted murder in France after seven people were wounded with a metal hook at Paris’s Gare du Nord station last week, prosecutors said Sunday. Investigators still do not know the motivation for attack, prosecutor Laure […]
(AFP) A Turkish-Swiss dual national who stabbed a passer-by to death in a rare jihadist attack in Switzerland was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in a psychiatric institution. Named only as Omer A., the 29-year-old was found guilty of murder, attempted murder, […]
(Deutsche Welle) The man who carried out a knife attack on a German high-speed train was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Friday. A court in Munich found that Abdalrahman A. was culpable despite claims he was mentally ill at the time. […]
(AP) A 22-year-old Seattle man was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison after being arrested while trying to board a flight to join the Islamic State group last year. Elvin Hunter Bgorn Williams was arrested at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as he […]
(Brussels Times) The deradicalisation centre for the support and care of anyone affected by violent extremism and radicalism (Caprev), which followed up on the suspect of the knife attack — Yassine M. — that killed one police officer and gravely injured another […]
(VRT) Six years after the events the Brussels attacks have claimed a further victim. Shanti De Corte, aged 23, underwent euthanasia, because of the insufferable mental pain she was in. At the time the bombs exploded at Brussels Airport Shanti was standing […]
(Brussels Times) The family of one of the victims of the 2016 Brussels Airport attacks has reacted with shock to a report on “forgotten” victims, broadcast on Wednesday evening on RTBF. The reaction came from relatives of a 23-year-old woman from Kontich […]
(Arab News) Daesh “Beatle” El Shafee El-Sheikh has avoided serving prison time in a US supermax prison after being moved to a lesser penitentiary following conviction, the Mirror reported. The terrorist, who grew up in Britain and had his citizenship stripped in […]
(BBC) Up to half of the claims for criminal injury compensation made to the government following the Manchester Arena terror attack have been rejected. From 741 applications resolved by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA), 331 did not result in compensation being […]
(AFP) A Swiss woman was given a nine-year jail term on Monday for slashing two people in the name of the Islamic State group but her sentence was suspended so she can undergo psychiatric treatment. The criminal court judges found the woman, […]
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