A policeman was stabbed and killed by a mother-son duo. The hearing is currently underway
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Barbieri will not face the mandatory life sentence that applies for the murder of a police officer because of mental health issues.
The court heard that Fiona Barbieri was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia at the time and Mitchell Barbieri had experienced "a transferred delusional disorder" from his mother, who was the dominant member of their relationship " end quote
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/brother-of-murdered-police-officer-bryson-anderson-tells-court-of-shattere...
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" The court has previously heard that Mitchell and Fiona Barbieri had engaged in a course of paranoid, delusional behaviour before, during and after the siege, which began when they clashed with their neighbour in the outer Sydney, semi-rural suburb of Oakville.
Mitchell Barbieri confronted Inspector Anderson, picked up a large kitchen knife and stabbed him twice as he stood next to the back door " end quote, Source same as above
" The court has previously heard " .....
Heard from whom? The defence ?
So we have the claim that the mother suffers from paranoid schizophrenia
and reportedly, the son 'caught it ' from her, basically
Yet until they stabbed a police officer to death, was this pair of now 'mentally ill' individuals functioning in society ? Did they go shopping without stabbing people ? Did they do their gardening without murdering neighbours and passers-by ? How did they manage to obtain their driver's licences? Did they pay their electricity etc. bills without going on murderous rampages ? Did they attend doctors' appointments, dentists' appointments without stabbing other patients ? Did they go to stores to buy themselves a new tv, new furniture, clothing, food, without raging around sticking knives into people ?
My bet is, they functioned pretty well if not completely normally ---- until they were charged with murder and got themselves a legal team
The police officer is still dead. His family probably isn't feeling too mentally stable knowing how their husband, father, brother, son died in the line of duty at the hands of a mother and son duo who will NOT face a mandatory life sentence for murdering a police officer because the mother reportedly suffers paranoid schizophrenia which her son 'caught' from her --- but which will NOT prevent him from engaging in relationships, marrying, having children and a LONG, happy life.
And what of the supposedly 'paranoid schizophrenic' mother ---- if she was SO murderous and SO able to 'infect' her son with her mental illness ----------------------------------- why wasn't that woman in a secure institution BEFORE she 'gave' her son her mental illness and BEFORE they murdered a police officer ?
Apparently, when a serious and violent crime is committed --- it's all because 'mental illness', drink, drugs and unhappy childhoods are to blame
