Murray Deakin found not guilty of double murder on grounds of mental illness
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JanJanuary 2021 at 6:37am
Murray Deakin is to be detained in a correctional facility and will be reviewed by the Mental Health Review Tribunal.
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A NSW Supreme Court judge has found a man not guilty of murdering his grandmother and a retired policeman, and seriously injuring his grandfather, by reason of mental illness.
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Murray Deakin has been found not guilty of double murder by reason of mental illness
He will be detained in a correctional facility and reviewed by the Mental Health Review Tribunal
A man who killed his grandmother and a retired police officer during a psychotic episode has been found not guilty of murder because of his mental illness.
Murray Deakin s bloody rampage began on June 1, 2018 when he discovered his motorbike had been moved from the driveway of the Bega house where he lived with his parents.
After asking his grandfather Thomas Winner where his bike was, he stabbed the older man with a pen-knife.
Murray Deakin (pictured) has been found not guilty of the horrific crimes as he could not tell right from wrong due to a psychotic episode caused by schizophrenia
Crime by Steve Zemek The chilling final words heard by a former police officer before he was clubbed to death with a claw hammer by a man during a bloody rampage have been revealed in a Sydney court. Murray Deakin is standing trial in the NSW Supreme Court, accused of murdering his grandmother Gail Winner and stabbing his grandfather Thomas Winner at their Bega home before murdering Michael Horne in a bizarre roadside attack at Bournda on the NSW south coast in June 2018. Mr Deakin, 22, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one count of grievous bodily harm on the grounds of mental illness, with his defence arguing he was in the grips of a psychotic episode at the time.
09:58 EDT, 18 January 2021
Having already killed his grandmother and led police on two dangerous pursuits, Murray Deakin snarled when a retired police officer approached him on a country NSW road. Follow the code. you have to follow the code, the expressionless 20-year-old told Michael Mick Horne in June 2018.
He sighed when Mr Horne asked for his name and pulled a claw hammer from his backpack, striking the fleeing 54-year-old in the back of the head.
Melanie Horne witnessed her husband s final moments before Deakin ordered her out of the couple s ute and drove away.
Murray Deakin snarled when a retired police officer approached him on a country NSW road