[2009] EWCA Crim 1326

Whilst a defendant had been predisposed to develop a mental disorder, fresh evidence on appeal failed to demonstrate that she had been suffering from such abnormality of mind as substantially impaired her mental responsibility for her acts at the time she had killed her mother, and her conviction for murder, rather than manslaughter, was therefore safe.

CA (Crim Div) (Keene LJ, Dobbs J, Judge Stokes QC Recorder of Nottingham )

06/07/2009