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Page I THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday March 189 REVIEW The raging darkness of the human mind By KGE Chock- KonkH It was Monday Jan Toronto was in the uneasy grip of a bi C winter It was a day in a city crowded with rising expectations and frustrated dreams was also the last day on this earth for old Nancy Eaton brutally stabbed to death and then sexually assaulted in her apartment by a 17- yearold friend Andrew In A Question Of Guilt Publishing 225 pages an intriguing and disturbing book coauthors William Scoular and Vivian Green examine the controversial murder and legal case After committing the act the offspring of a wealthy Toronto family made himself a coffee showered and then went out to spend some idle hours buying cocaine and record tapes and playing That evening he left Toronto in the victims car a Buick Skylark with a licence that read He was arrested near Bradford and returned to face a charge of firstdegree murder At his trial defence counsel Clayton Ruby argued that LeysbonHughes suffered from a brain imperceptively and ir- damaged at a troubl ed birth an injury that was to greatly effect his dealings with people As such be was incapable of understanding the nature and quality of his criminal act the term coined was that he had a crocodile brain Experts testified that in the youths case this area the oldest part of the organ that in simple invertebrates like the crocodile governs all necessary activity both predatory and defen sive was hyperactive In Hughes damaged mind it over rode reason causing him to com mit a fatal deed over which he had no control court was told After a demanding nine days testimony admirably documented in this work the jury found not guilty by reason of insanity The trial judge ordered the youth held indefinitely at the mentalhealth facility in Ont It is here where the book makes its most profound statements William Scoular and Vivian Green argue that was not insane when be killed Nancy Baton They believe he was psychopathic bereft of conscience and feeling and not psychotic in capable of forming the intent necessary for a criminal act They also feel his enforced stay in will not cure The authors are admittedly new to the field of criminal jurisprudence but they dare to tread boldly across this sometimes bleak terrain And to their credit and the readers ultimate enrich ment they do so in a manner that is both engrossing and enlighten- RAGING DARKNESS Their writing is at its best when it examines the raging darkness of the human mind In its most com plex connotation Thus we learn of Londoner Denis Neilson a lonely introvert who murdered a dozen victims including a Canadian and kept their bodies as companions in his Garden flat until they began to putrefy And of American serial killer Ted and several renowned British psychopaths where in all cases the defence of insanity was considered and ruled out The most interesting of these cases was that of Neville the murderer of a prostitute whose defence was that he was only par tially insane Another intriguing character in this compendium of horror is Sylvester Matuschka who found sexual gratification in causing trains to crash In 1931 the Vienna express was derailed shortly thereafter the Budapest express crashed killing 22 people Matuschka admitted the crimes and was sentenced to life imprison ment He escaped and made his CRAFT SHOP M 11 MAIN STREET SOUTH ACTON 8533949 Sears Agency 310 CHURCH DIRECTORY TO ADVERTISE IN THIS SPACE CALL DISPLAY ADVERTISING 8772201 NONDENOMINATIONAL PENTECOSTAL ALL PEOPLES CHURCH DELIVERANCE CENTRE Boulevard Bramalaa SW comer 7 Bible Study Worship Deliverance Sunday 1 pm Wednesday pm We Provide Childrens Church Nursery Service EngUshtoItatian translation Pastor A fiJM way to America In while in the US army he was posted to Korea to command a unit whose mandate was to blow up trains This macabre anecdote not withstanding Scoular and Green adeptly connect complex and disparate themes They question the legitimacy of mental disorder and the ability of the legal system to discern and adequate deal with and psychopaths The youth will soon return to general society While to the primacy of the judicial process and the ruling of judge and jury in this matter one cannot but pause to consider the vacuous nature of LieutenantGovernors warrants which send Canadians convicted in the courts of the land to institutions for the criminal insane The sentences served under warrant range from an average eight years and eight months in Saskatchewan to 14 months in Nova Scotia The Ontario average is six years and three months KGE Chuck Konkel is a sergeant with the Metro Toronto Police and the author of the best- telling novel the Glorious East Wind about the last years of Hong Kong OFFICE MAGIC FOR ALL YOUR OFFICE STATIONERV NEEDS Gualph St fabric forum Prepared by the International Institute the association professional Do Drydeaners Wet Clean Drydeaners have been put in a bit of a quandary 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