Not twenty two. Fuelled by despair, disappointment & joy. Holy Fool.
Sep 30, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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.