ACCUSED NOT SANE
MURDER OF MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER (P.A.) Napier, Feb. 15. Before Sir Michael Myers, Chief Justice, in the Supreme Court, David John Campbell was charged with murdering his mother, Mavis Esther Campbell, and his grandmother Maud Campbell. Benjamin David Hart, medical superintendent of the Porirua Mental Hospital, stated that accused suffered acute mental disorder. Accused was discharged from hospital in July, 1942. After the tragedy he was returned. His disease was well established and accused was quite unable to understand his position.
Gilbert Mortimer Tothill, medical superintendent at Te Awamutu Hospital, said there was np question of malingering. The jury, without retiring, returned a verdict that accused was not sufficiently sane to plead. The Judge ordered that prisoner be kept at Porirua until the pleasure of the Minister of Justice was known.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 38, 16 February 1943, Page 6
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