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A Supreme Court judge has been forced to keep a man in jail for a further three months because there are no beds at the state’s secure hospital, a situation she described as “very unfortunate”.
Despite more money being directed towards the Thomas Embling forensic mental health hospital in this year’s budget, the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday that more men were still waiting for beds.
Maud Steenbeek was attacked and killed in her Heidelberg West home.
Xochil Quetzel O’Neill, 30, who killed his neighbour Maud Steenbeek in her Heidelberg West home on January 28 last year was found not guilty of murder because of mental impairment.
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Courtney Herron s killer, Henry Hammond, ordered to spend 25 years in psychiatric hospital
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The killing of Courtney Herron in a Melbourne park sparked grief and anger in the city.
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Henry Hammond, who used a tree branch to beat a woman to death in a Melbourne park, has been ordered to spend 25 years in a secure psychiatric hospital.
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He was found not guilty of murdering Ms Herron due to mental impairment
Ms Herron s father said the outcome had failed to deliver justice for his daughter
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