Seen this on the news this morning. A mental health tribunal have declared Peter Sutcliffe is no longer mentally ill and can be moved from a psychiatric hospital to prison.

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When I was a young girl my Mother said to me.. You listen here kid you're CPFC

I have read articles on this stating that he wasn't claiming anything about being mentally ill or hearing voices at the time of his arrest. This was only brought up later and at the time it very nearly meant the full severity of his crimes weren't heard in the public domain. If this was the case how the hell has he managed to pull it off for all these years while in hospital

Edited by Michaelawt85 (12 Aug 2016 10.18am)

When I was a young girl my Mother said to me.. You listen here kid you're CPFC

Its not entirely unheard of for psychiatric patients in aging to experience the loss of symptoms. For example, in anti-social personality disorder, there is a strong tendency for the individuals lack of empathy to disappear, and their capacity for right and wrong to become established.

One theory behind this is based around the notion that rather than developing theory of mind over the space of years (between say 4-7) they develop it over decades.

Similarly in terms of schizophrenia, it can become less prevalent as the individual ages - which isn't necessarily surprising given the changes that the human brain undergoes in old age. Schizophrenia seems also to be linked to sensory experience (for example there are no cases of someone who has been born blind developing schizophrenia).

So its not unheard of. Of course as well successful treatment and medication can also lead to an individual being deemed 'cured'. Its also potentially possible for the effects of long term medication to reverse a disorder (effecting the brain chemistry permanently).

Also some people go into a spontaneous remission.

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Quite - He did have someone stab his eyes out with pencils and another patient came very close to strangling him (only prevented by two other patients come to his aid), and a final inmate tried to stab him in 2007.

Whilst prison is being locked up with some very dangerous people. Broadmoor secure wing is being locked up only with very dangerous and unstable people. Almost none of whom are going to be let out.

Its different than being on a section order, which isn't anywhere near as nice as it sounds (and it doesn't sound nice).

Also in terms of schizophrenia, it would depend which version of paranoid schizophrenia he was diagnosed with. The rarer type is very scary. You don't have to hear voices to be schizophrenic. Auditory hallucinations are rarely a distinct system in paranoid schizophrenia. It tends to be focused more on delusions of thought, paranoia and repeated irrational behaviours, than hearing voices.

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Classy, bet you don't get those in prison Time spent in the psych ward doesn't count as time served usually, if you didn't get a 'diminished responsibility or insanity' plea (I'm not sure if that is still the case).

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Maybe he got it from Michael Parkinson, just for enquiring.