Deregistered psychiatrist is reconvicted for murder of former boss

doi:10.1136/bmj.b1911

Published 8 May 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b1911
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b1911

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Deregistered psychiatrist is reconvicted for murder of former boss

Melissa Sweet

¹ Sydney

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One year after his first conviction was overturned on appeal,the deregistered Australian psychiatrist Jean Eric Gassy hasagain been convicted of the murder of his former boss, MargaretTobin.

Dr Tobin, a psychiatrist who was director of mental health forSouth Australia, was shot four times on 14 October 2002 as sheleft a lift while returning from lunch to her office in centralAdelaide.

On Wednesday 6 May a jury of the Supreme Court of South Australiareturned a guilty verdict after deliberating for less than fourhours.

Mr Gassy was previously convicted in 2004 (BMJ 2004;329:759,doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7469.759). But in May last year the HighCourt of Australia ordered a retrial, holding that the originaltrial judge’s direction to a deadlocked jury had not beenbalanced enough (BMJ 2008;336:1154-5, doi:10.1136/bmj.39587.372766.DB).

Mr Gassy represented himself in both trials and also in an unsuccessful. . . [Full text of this article]

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