Kenyan Woman Charged with Killing Malawian Man in Ireland Declared Unfit to Stand Trial
A Kenyan-born woman charged with killing a Malawian national in south Dublin, Ireland has been declared unfit to stand trial.
50-year-old Grace Miano allegedly killed Limbani ‘Robert’ Mzoma, 27, at her home in Foxrock, Dublin on November 1st, 2018.
On Tuesday, the Central Criminal Court's Justice Eileen Creedon was told that there was an issue to be decided by her regarding Ms. Miano’s fitness to be tried.
The prosecution called Dr. Ronan Mullaney, a consultant forensic psychiatrist from the Central Mental Hospital (CMH), to give evidence on the issue.
Dr. Mullaney told the court that he prepared two reports after interviewing the accused on several occasions in order to give his opinion regarding her fitness to stand trial.
He said he established that Ms. Miano had suffered from auditory hallucinations over many years prior to the alleged offense.
"Ms. Miano continued to present in subsequent assessments as mentally unwell and the insight into her illness remained poor," Mullaney said.
Dr. Mullaney also said the accused recounted a number of “deluded conspiracy beliefs” when he interviewed her in February this year.
He also said Grace suffers from schizoaffective disorder, a mental disorder which is characterized by holding “bizarre and infeasible delusional beliefs.”
Based on these assessments, the witness concluded that the accused person was unfit to be tried according to the criteria in Section 4 of the Criminal Law Insanity Act 2006.
Dr. Mullaney said Grace is unable to plead to the charge, instruct an attorney or make a proper defense.
The defense team also called Dr. Paul O’Connell, a consultant forensic psychiatrist at the CMH, to give evidence.
Dr. O’Connell said that after several meetings with the accused, he formed an opinion that she was unfit to stand trial as she is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.
“She is not capable of considering her defense options and could not give a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity proper exploration,” he said.
On Thursday, Justice Creedon made an order committing the accused to the Central Mental Hospital until June 20th.
She also ordered the preparation of a psychiatric assessment by an approved medical officer.
Comments (9)
Uyu niatiganwo nake ni muguruki! Niaheo dawa!
@Imara-"This one should be left alone she is crazy! She should be medicated."
@Ndugu Kijana: Ingekuwa bora kama ungetafsiri kwa lugha ya taifa (Kiswahili) ili watu wengi wajue umeandika nini.
Tafsiri kwa Kiswahili
Mama huyu aachwe kabisa kwa sababu yeye ni mwenda wazimu. Ni heri apewe dawa!
@Imara
Wakati ujao nitafanya hivyo. Nakushukuru kwa kunikosoa!
@Kijana, Imara is a walking Kamusi of all languages in Kenya. As I wrote the above message I had a feeling he understood what you wrote.
Is schizoaffective disorder characterized by auditory hallucinations a new diagnosis or she'd been diagnosed prior to her murder's act? Just trying to make sure she's truly mentally ill and not just a believable actress. Mental illness must be taken seriously.
Nowadays people learn a lot of info via internet to get away with issue and get issues which even not belongs to them.
Although, As usual the truth will be caught by TIME - with TIME is the only factor in such cases.
This is like a confusing narrative full of boredom...you need to tell us how the accused kill the poor man and how were they related...story mingi muache!!!!
If this is something to go by, then, there is a possibility that this kenyan woman has been framed and used as a scape goat due to her mental illness.
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