It Takes All Kinds......

[Milvus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-27643702

[flump1]

Oh my giddy aunt....pass the brain bleach.

[jeffa]

What a sh*t story.

[Mamyalynne]

It does indeed, just when you think you've seen it all.

They're all out there aren't they?

[gness]

Oh ye gods!.... I hope he lived alone....

[Milvus]

Never embraced the Lynx experience

[gness]

Gives a new slant on...Splash it all over......

[shoota]

I think this slurry had a (lunatic) fringe on top.....

[jeffa]

"I think this slurry had a (lunatic) fringe on top"

Now THAT's humour :-)

[craft1948]

If it was a lady would it be a slurry with a *** on top?

[sandyRoe]

♫ When I take you out to the slurry, cows with taste will quickly scurry...♫

[Milvus]

A step too far Sandy....:)

[Canary42]

How sad, should have been sectioned years ago. This is what happens with "care in the community" instead of properly funded refuges for the mentally sick. Criminalisation of such a helpless case is wicked IMHO.

[Buenchico]

I'm definitely with Canary42 in principle. (The guy needs help, not imprisonment). However I'm slightly alarmed at the simplistic solution of 'section him', as that also means a loss of liberty.

Offering him cognitive behavioural therapy might be an alternative first step. Otherwise anyone who is diagnosed as having an autism spectrum disorder might easily be locked up. Since that includes me, I feel compelled to object!

[humbersloop]

Chris, he's been poorly treated but in the scheme of things, some cbt might be a bit further down the line

//Truscott, who was jailed in 2005, 2009 and 2011 for his actions at the property, repeatedly set fire to their shed, tractor, enclosures and hay - killing a calf in one blaze//

[Buenchico]

I suspect that part of the problem, Humbersloop, is an anomaly in the law.

If the judges who previously jailed the guy were told that he had a 'personality disorder' they weren't allowed to send him to a psychiatric hospital (where he might have found help) because such a disorder is regarded as 'incurable' and the law only allows courts to sentence people to psychiatric care if they can be cured of the mental disease that afflicts them.

While he can never be 'cured' he can be helped to live within society (without offending against it) but the current law prevents our courts from passing a sentence that offers such help.

[weecalf]

Hope he said slurry for his behaviour .

[mikey4444]

This case has been going on for years. This man is clearly mad. He needs to be sectioned and then treated, not imprisoned.

[naomi24]

//This man is clearly mad. //

I tend to agree with you - but apparently not.

//On Friday he was handed an extended sentence of 10 years following psychiatric reports. //

[ummmm]

//Judge Philip Wassall said Truscott, who has autism spectrum disorder, would spend the first five years of his prison sentence receiving hospital treatment.

He will serve an extended licence period of five years on release from prison.//

He will be transferred to a psychiatric hospital...

[aelmpvw]

how long will it be before he makes a 'dirty protest' in jail?