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diminished responsibility
noun as in mitigating circumstances
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Prosecutor Karim Khalil KC had told a court hearing in January 2024 - where Calocane had pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility - Mr Webber had been stabbed "repeatedly" with a dagger, inflicting "grave injuries" and causing him to fall to the floor.
Calocane was sentenced to a hospital order in January 2024 after pleading guilty to three counts of manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility, and three counts of attempted murder after using Mr Coates's van to drive into three pedestrians - Wayne Birkett, Marcin Gawronski and Sharon Miller - all of whom were seriously injured.
He pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Newport Crown Court but denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Her boyfriend, Gogoa Lois Tape, 28, previously admitted manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility and carrying a knife.
Alice Mackey, 42, of Oakhanger, was in a state of "diminished responsibility" at the time according to two psychiatrists, Winchester Crown Court was told.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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