>Anderson, who has been a patient at the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) since shortly after she stabbed 39-year-old Gareth Kelly to death, had previously pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court.
Pleading insanity here is as good as life in prison except you might not ever get out, it’s not a plea you would try and make lightly like in the US, it comes with the heaviest of sentences.
Who remembers her from here? She was a regular but I can’t recall the name she used.
I’ve never seen a defence like the one written in any article about this woman
They’re trying to get this murderer off with all the sympathetic explaining why she is the way she is
She murdered someone in cold blood nothing else
When have you ever seen a murder trial try to excuse the murderer by saying they had relationship difficulties and was bullied?
It’s mad how none of the media want to report about her alter ego “Nicky” that she posted as and had a website dedicated to her going’s on. I assume that’s what the neighbours said in their WhatsApp group about her that made her sue them for defamation.
Very strange case all the same. She seems on the face of the evidence reported not a well woman, but then when you take the other stuff not being reported into consideration it gets stranger. Her husband has some answering to do imo about how their lifestyle shaped or damaged her mental health.
Is nobody here familiar with murders and how they are committed?
Just reading the details of this case, it is very obvious that this is a murder committed during a psychotic episode. Usually, you will see this in paranoid schizophrenics, experiencing a psychotic episode – They operate under a delusion that someone is trying to kill them or harm them and end up murdering someone in a horrible way, usually with a knife.
We have at least one or two murders per year in Ireland committed by people suffering from schizophrenia.
In this case, there is evidence that Anderson was a regular user of marijuana. We know that marijuana is linked to psychosis and the development of scizophrenia. (Before you downvote me, please look it up on the Internet. For example: [https://www.healthline.com/health/substance-use/cannabis-psychosis](https://www.healthline.com/health/substance-use/cannabis-psychosis))
Just an example from the article:
>The court heard from friends and neighbours of Anderson and from her husband Mark that her behaviour had become increasingly erratic in the days and weeks leading up to the stabbing. In particular, she had become obsessed with what she falsely believed to be a criminal conspiracy among her neighbours involving gardaí and senior politicians.
That’s psychosis.
>Mr Anderson… didn’t notice anything wrong with his wife before he left but when he landed back in Dublin… she “seemed to be delusional”…. He had never previously seen her act in a paranoid way but she began telling him about a “criminal conspiracy” involving their neighbours and said she was in fear for herself and the children. She attached some significance to a photograph she had found of Bertie Ahern and said that their solicitor was going to come to the house with Michael Jackson.
That’s psychosis.
>The following day… she was still delusional but had periods of clear thinking, he said, during which she was aware that she was not well and was willing to go to the psychiatric unit. Her husband called Mary Mercer, hoping to bring her in that day but they said they didn’t have psychiatric services on a Monday. They agreed to bring her scheduled appointment for the following afternoon forward to 9am.
Psychosis.
>To relax that night Mr Anderson said he put on an episode of Star Trek but his wife began saying things that did not make sense. She said that she was a goddess and that the whole family would become gods and goddesses. He had never heard her saying anything like that before.
Psychosis.
>she was transferred to the Central Mental Hospital where she was found to be acutely psychotic
Voila!
This reminds me of a situation I had to deal with here in Ireland minus the murder thankfully. Very long story but the summary is one of my housemates went down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole and started to believe he was followed. Then he thought I was in the CIA and the house was a disappearing house where I would kill and get rid of people. He would start pleading with me for his life. This all escalated from conspiracy theories which he was into for a long time to the apex of the madness in a week or so, very rapid.
I went to the Gardai saying that although we loved the guy that I was terrified of his thoughts and that if he really believed I was going to kill him that he would do a pre emptive strike and kill me first. They didn’t want to know about it, ended up just having a big argument with them. I then tried to play into the delusion with Tim and said we should go to someone to figure out who was following him.
Despite him thinking I was a professional killer he went along with it, he was fairly gone at this stage. I rang a GP out of hours service, explained the situation and thankfully they agreed to see him. After his consultation he was admitted to the acute psychiatric ward of the major hospital here. We all flatly refused to allow him back in the house again, we were licencees not tenants so when he got moved to a charity run home we dropped all his stuff off to him.
That was over 10 years ago, have briefly bumped into him once or twice since, but haven’t seen him now in at least 7 or 8 years, so don’t even know if he’s still alive or what his situation is.
It was really sad they tried to get help for her and nothing was done. We need more mental health services here.
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Bonkers story.
>Anderson, who has been a patient at the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) since shortly after she stabbed 39-year-old Gareth Kelly to death, had previously pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court.
Pleading insanity here is as good as life in prison except you might not ever get out, it’s not a plea you would try and make lightly like in the US, it comes with the heaviest of sentences.
Who remembers her from here? She was a regular but I can’t recall the name she used.
I’ve never seen a defence like the one written in any article about this woman
They’re trying to get this murderer off with all the sympathetic explaining why she is the way she is
She murdered someone in cold blood nothing else
When have you ever seen a murder trial try to excuse the murderer by saying they had relationship difficulties and was bullied?
It’s mad how none of the media want to report about her alter ego “Nicky” that she posted as and had a website dedicated to her going’s on. I assume that’s what the neighbours said in their WhatsApp group about her that made her sue them for defamation.
Very strange case all the same. She seems on the face of the evidence reported not a well woman, but then when you take the other stuff not being reported into consideration it gets stranger. Her husband has some answering to do imo about how their lifestyle shaped or damaged her mental health.
Is nobody here familiar with murders and how they are committed?
Just reading the details of this case, it is very obvious that this is a murder committed during a psychotic episode. Usually, you will see this in paranoid schizophrenics, experiencing a psychotic episode – They operate under a delusion that someone is trying to kill them or harm them and end up murdering someone in a horrible way, usually with a knife.
We have at least one or two murders per year in Ireland committed by people suffering from schizophrenia.
In this case, there is evidence that Anderson was a regular user of marijuana. We know that marijuana is linked to psychosis and the development of scizophrenia. (Before you downvote me, please look it up on the Internet. For example: [https://www.healthline.com/health/substance-use/cannabis-psychosis](https://www.healthline.com/health/substance-use/cannabis-psychosis))
Just an example from the article:
>The court heard from friends and neighbours of Anderson and from her husband Mark that her behaviour had become increasingly erratic in the days and weeks leading up to the stabbing. In particular, she had become obsessed with what she falsely believed to be a criminal conspiracy among her neighbours involving gardaí and senior politicians.
That’s psychosis.
>Mr Anderson… didn’t notice anything wrong with his wife before he left but when he landed back in Dublin… she “seemed to be delusional”…. He had never previously seen her act in a paranoid way but she began telling him about a “criminal conspiracy” involving their neighbours and said she was in fear for herself and the children. She attached some significance to a photograph she had found of Bertie Ahern and said that their solicitor was going to come to the house with Michael Jackson.
That’s psychosis.
>The following day… she was still delusional but had periods of clear thinking, he said, during which she was aware that she was not well and was willing to go to the psychiatric unit. Her husband called Mary Mercer, hoping to bring her in that day but they said they didn’t have psychiatric services on a Monday. They agreed to bring her scheduled appointment for the following afternoon forward to 9am.
Psychosis.
>To relax that night Mr Anderson said he put on an episode of Star Trek but his wife began saying things that did not make sense. She said that she was a goddess and that the whole family would become gods and goddesses. He had never heard her saying anything like that before.
Psychosis.
>she was transferred to the Central Mental Hospital where she was found to be acutely psychotic
Voila!
This reminds me of a situation I had to deal with here in Ireland minus the murder thankfully. Very long story but the summary is one of my housemates went down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole and started to believe he was followed. Then he thought I was in the CIA and the house was a disappearing house where I would kill and get rid of people. He would start pleading with me for his life. This all escalated from conspiracy theories which he was into for a long time to the apex of the madness in a week or so, very rapid.
I went to the Gardai saying that although we loved the guy that I was terrified of his thoughts and that if he really believed I was going to kill him that he would do a pre emptive strike and kill me first. They didn’t want to know about it, ended up just having a big argument with them. I then tried to play into the delusion with Tim and said we should go to someone to figure out who was following him.
Despite him thinking I was a professional killer he went along with it, he was fairly gone at this stage. I rang a GP out of hours service, explained the situation and thankfully they agreed to see him. After his consultation he was admitted to the acute psychiatric ward of the major hospital here. We all flatly refused to allow him back in the house again, we were licencees not tenants so when he got moved to a charity run home we dropped all his stuff off to him.
That was over 10 years ago, have briefly bumped into him once or twice since, but haven’t seen him now in at least 7 or 8 years, so don’t even know if he’s still alive or what his situation is.
It was really sad they tried to get help for her and nothing was done. We need more mental health services here.