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Originally Posted by morgin
If you are certain he had a choice and chose to do this in a state of mind that is deemed legally competent, then I understand entirely where you are coming from.
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I'm not certain of anything except that he targeted and murdered 5 people in cold blood. It is possible although in my opinion very unlikely that de Grood suffered from acute mental illness to the point where he just snapped and decided to walk into a party and butcher five people in a random and uncontrollable act. Someone that resorts to that level of extreme violence often exhibits violent behaviour as an ongoing issue. And as far as I am aware, Matthew de Grood was known as basically a nice person.
So based on that, I am more inclined to believe that something triggered an extraordinary rage and he acted on it, not because he was severely mentally ill as a life long issue and was not in control of his own actions.
Now I'm going to assume that some of you are quite certain that de Grood's counsel will be putting forth the defence of mental disorder.