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A “very dangerous” schizophrenic is roaming the streets just two months after he was sentenced to an indefinite period in a mental hospital for an unprovoked and brutal attack on his neighbour. Shiloh Payne has been spotted on several occasions in t...

The Attorney General and Bermuda Hospitals Board have signalled their support for a special Mental Health Court to improve the way criminals with mental problems are dealt with. However, AG Michael Scott said budget cuts may mean the court promised b...

A judge yesterday repeated long-standing calls for Bermuda to have a Mental Health Court in the wake of the Shiloh Payne case. As reported in today’s edition, Payne, a 27-year-old schizophrenic, launched a brutal and unprovoked attack on his neighbou...

A schizophrenic has been sentenced to an indefinite period in a mental hospital after stabbing his neighbour and trying to hit him with a concrete block. Supreme Court heard that the “very dangerous” Shiloh Payne launched the unprovoked attack on Ran...

The last time Marcia Scraders enrolled her special needs son Omori in nursery school in Bermuda, the placement lasted all of an hour. She arrived at the school to find the teacher chasing Omori back and forth across the room, unable to catch him. Sh...

Local physicians heard firsthand from a former psychiatric patient how unsettling and traumatising the actions of health care workers can be on their patients. Alan Rowland, of Birmingham, England, gave a detailed account of the events that eventuall...

Occasionally I conduct assessments on individuals for the courts. These usually involve some kind of intellectual evaluation coupled with personality assessment so as to ascertain capacities, functional abilities, and psychological health. Often I ne...