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| Student attacked in dormitory sues UBC |
| 2018-07-16 |
| A young woman whose throat was slashed inside a University of British Columbia student residence has filed a lawsuit against the school alleging negligence. The notice of civil claim says Mary Hare was inside her room in Salish House in October 2016 when international student Thamer Almestadi entered carrying a knife. Almestadi's trial heard he knocked on the 19-year-old's door, slit her throat and started choking her before other students pulled him off. A court found the teen not criminally responsible because he was suffering from a psychotic episode in which he believed the Qur'an had sent him a message to kill Hare. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 /sarcasm, indeed, Rambler dear. |
| Posted by: trailing wfe 2018-07-16 22:07 |
| #8 tw, all I know is that Canada's health care is superior to America's. Of course, so is the UK's, Cuba's and any other country that has socialized medicine. /sarcasm |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2018-07-16 22:01 |
| #7 From the article: The B.C. Review Board discharged Almestadi from a psychiatric hospital earlier this year in order for him to return to his home country of Saudi Arabia, where his parents had designed a treatment plan. Does Canada have long term psychiatric hospital care, or just emergency stabilization until the patient commits a crime that can get them sent to prison, as we do in America? |
| Posted by: trailing wfe 2018-07-16 21:33 |
| #6 Poss the only way he could express his love. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-07-16 19:02 |
| #5 Rabid animals are also 'not responsible' for their actions and there is a standard public health response. The insanity defense has become ... insane. |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-07-16 09:54 |
| #4 That would be "Friday School". |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2018-07-16 07:29 |
| #3 I'm only being half snarky here. Did the students who pulled the guy off get punished? Doesn't sound like a psychotic break. Sounds like he's been paying attention at Sunday School. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2018-07-16 06:07 |
| #2 Better yet, let him smell flowers - through their roots. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-07-16 03:35 |
| #1 Ship him home where he'll fit right in. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-07-16 03:11 |