1. Mention of the child murderer #IanBrady highlights how much society wants to have ‘evil’ people out of sight & not to have to think about them unless they are watching or reading a fictional account of their atrocities as entertainment.
2. We can call him ‘evil’ all we want to explain his depravity, but courts & MH tribunals & clinical professional all judged him to be ‘mad’, not ‘bad’ regardless of his actions on many occasions. He was detained under the MH Act in a high secure MH Unit until his death.
3. #IanBrady himself fought to be discharged from his MH section several times, & he wanted to return to prison.
Secure MH Units hold many people who murder, & who may in fact have committed crimes as terrible as Brady, but they avoid media attention for some reason.
Secure MH Units hold many people who murder, & who may in fact have committed crimes as terrible as Brady, but they avoid media attention for some reason.
4. Anyway, I know that people won’t want to hear this, but the #Panorama programme this week featured #Edenfield a secure MH Unit with murderers as patients too, & there is rightly outrage at how MH staff treated the vulnerable people in their care.
5. So, ‘mad’ or ‘bad’ ?
It’s not as straightforward as people who don’t work in prisons & secure MH units think it is. How would you treat a patient detained under the MHA who has murdered people ? Call them ‘evil’ & hope that they rot in hell ? 🤷🏻♀️
It’s not as straightforward as people who don’t work in prisons & secure MH units think it is. How would you treat a patient detained under the MHA who has murdered people ? Call them ‘evil’ & hope that they rot in hell ? 🤷🏻♀️
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