Appellant who killed his grandmother and pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility could not rely on his paranoid psychotic illness as an exceptional circumstance under s.2 Crime (Sentences) Act 1997. Despite compelling medical evidence that he should become the subject of a hospital order he had been correctly sentenced to life imprisonment.

CA (Crim Div) (Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Garland J, Nelson J)

18/01/2000