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vintagegal: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
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Cannibalism during the Russian Famine 1921
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crimesandkillers: The child killer remains “chronically psychotic”, believing he is having conversations with Laurel and Hardy and Cilla Black, and should remain at Ashworth maximum security hospital for treatment, a judge was told. Brady, 75, suffers from long-term paranoid schizophrenia which does not “just fade away and die”, according to the clinician in charge of his care. Brady disagrees, and is trying to persuade the tribunal he is well enough to be transferred back into the prison system so he can starve himself to death instead of being force-fed, as he is at Ashworth. On the third day of the tribunal at Ashworth, which is being relayed by video link to a court in Manchester, Dr James Collins, who is in charge of Brady’s care, said the killer had paranoid beliefs about other patients he thought were spying on him. He said Brady was constantly paranoid about the Home Office and the Prison Officers Association, and believed hospital staff were acting as their agents. His wish that he could “send cancer in an envelope” to one doctor was one example of anger which was the driving force for his paranoia, said Dr Collins. He wrongly believed that others were out “to get at him” and he responded by spilling shredded oats cereal outside one man’s door and smearing the chair of another with jam and honey. “He is better, much better and able to control it (the illness) but his life is still severely handicapped by his disorder, his mental illness,” he said. “He is acting like someone who is chronically psychotic.” Eleanor Grey QC, representing Ashworth Hospital, which opposes any bid to transfer Brady to prison, asked Dr Collins what he thought would happen if Brady was allowed to return to prison. “I think he will be delighted,” he said. “He will have won after all. There will a period of triumph. “Then there will be a period of him thinking about what is going to happen. He has always said prison is horrible. He had a horrible time at Durham and he would not come out of his room at Parkhurst. “He is going to be frightened… he won’t admit it. He is going to be dreading the consequences. I am not sure he will come out of his room. “Those are all significant stresses.” He said he thought that if he went back to prison it might take “only a matter of weeks” for Brady to return to the level of mental illness he had in 1985, when he was transferred to Ashworth following hallucinations. Dr Collins added that Brady would have problems in being returned to a system run by organisations such as the Home Office and the Prison Officers Association which were the “core of his delusions”. The hearing was told that Brady was still smoking after 60 years and had chronic obstructive airways disease but his health was better after last year when he suffered from a recurrent chest infection, had an epileptic fit and suffered two broken bones in his spine. Brady was not present today at the morning session of the hearing, having walked out yesterday after complaining he was bored and saying he did not want to listen to Dr Collins’s evidence. He returned to the hearing room as cross-examination of Dr Collins began from his barrister, Nathalie Lieven QC. Dr Collins said Brady had experienced a “whole range” of psychotic episodes, with “many of them pleasant” such as talking to Laurel and Hardy and Cilla Black. On Tuesday the hearing was told that Brady plotted to escape from Ashworth by trying to seduce a female hospital visitor with money, clothes and his photograph. Dr Collins said of the alleged escape bid: “He gave her some money, clothes and he gave her a photo of himself. It was clearly a preparation for an escape. He has opened up to this woman more than anyone else.” The woman was not named. The hearing continues.
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dichotomization: Woman with severe osteomalacia. Osteomalacia is the softening of the bones caused by defective bone mineralization secondary to inadequate amounts of available phosphorus and calcium, or because of overactive resorption of calcium from the bone as a result of hyperparathyroidism.
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