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19/05/2005
Police killer detained indefinitely
A paranoid schizophrenic who killed a policeman last year has been detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act.
Glaister Earl Butler was convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, after a murder charge was dropped, at Birmingham Crown Court.
Butler stabbed Detective Constable Michael Swindells, 44, in Birmingham last May, as the policeman tried to arrest him.
Prosecutor Timothy Raggatt QC told the court that it was their “considered view” that the medical evidence in the case was “all one way” and said that Butler was suffering from an “abnormality of the mind” when he killed Det Con Swindells.
Butler reportedly had a long history of mental illness, which included paranoid delusions about the police. He was being cared for in the community at the time of Det Con Swindells death.
It was reported that the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust, who had been responsible for providing mental health care to Butler since 1995, would be conducting an internal inquiry into the tragedy.
(KMcA/SP)
Glaister Earl Butler was convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, after a murder charge was dropped, at Birmingham Crown Court.
Butler stabbed Detective Constable Michael Swindells, 44, in Birmingham last May, as the policeman tried to arrest him.
Prosecutor Timothy Raggatt QC told the court that it was their “considered view” that the medical evidence in the case was “all one way” and said that Butler was suffering from an “abnormality of the mind” when he killed Det Con Swindells.
Butler reportedly had a long history of mental illness, which included paranoid delusions about the police. He was being cared for in the community at the time of Det Con Swindells death.
It was reported that the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust, who had been responsible for providing mental health care to Butler since 1995, would be conducting an internal inquiry into the tragedy.
(KMcA/SP)
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