The son of former Adelaide Crows coach Phil Walsh has been found not guilty of murder by reason of mental incompetence by the South Australian Supreme Court.
Cy Walsh, 27, was detained in a secure psychiatric facility after he was arrested and charged with murdering his father in July last year.
Phil Walsh was repeatedly stabbed in his Somerton Park home in Adelaide’s beachside eastern suburbs in the early hours of July 3, 2015.
The 55-year-old was the head coach of the Adelaide Football Club at the time.
Cy Walsh pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of mental incompetence and at the last hearing the prosecution indicated it would accept that plea.
Justice Ann Bampton formally made a ruling that Cy Walsh was not guilty of murder by reason of mental incompetence.
She found the objective elements, or facts of the offending, proved.
That meant the court was satisfied Cy Walsh killed his father, but that he was not criminally responsible for his crime because of his mental state.
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If a random person in the street killed another in a state of drug induced psychosis, would the outcome be the same?
I've just read the article about the 48 hours leading up to this. How shocking. How terribly sad. Mental illness, psychosis, schizophrenia - it blows my mind. Just how do families cope with this sort of illness.
Where is this article? I'm interested to read.
it was in the Herald Sun a couple of days ago.