90 results for “paranoid_delusions”
21y · Male·Head injury sustained in fall from height
A 21-year-old university student with first-episode schizophreniform disorder died from head injury sustained jumping from a 3-metre hospital courtyard wall on 1 January 2011. He had been admitted to the psychiatric unit…
43y · Male·Multiple gunshot wounds received during a police operation
Michael Capel, 43, suffered from schizophrenia managed with monthly antipsychotic injections from his GP. In October 2008, he missed his injection scheduled for 5 September. His mother noticed behavioural changes and enc…
30y · Male·unknown - no postmortem examination performed
This inquest examined the 1995 disappearance of Habtom Ghilagaber, a 30-year-old Eritrean mathematics PhD student at UNSW who was reported missing on 25 September 1995, having last been seen alive on 5 September 1995. Th…
40y · Male·gunshot wounds
Todd McKenzie, a 40-year-old man with treatment-resistant schizophrenia, died of gunshot wounds after a nine-hour police siege at his Taree home on 31 July 2019. Todd became acutely psychotic, waving a knife and expressi…
46y · Female·Ms Glendinning: multiple sharp force injuries (suicide); Jane Lesley Margaret Cu…
Heather Glendinning, severely mentally ill with chronic paranoid delusions exacerbated by cannabis abuse and stress from family court proceedings, killed her daughters Jane and Jessica on 5 December 2011, then took her o…
44y · Male·Gunshot wounds to the trunk and right thigh with subsequent blood loss
Christopher McGrail, a 44-year-old man with a history of substance abuse, depression, and trauma following his son's suicide, was shot by NSW Police during a knife confrontation. He presented with acute intoxication (alc…
38y · Male·Internal haemorrhage complicating large calibre gunshot wounds to the neck
Grant MacLeod, aged 38, died from a gunshot wound to the neck inflicted by Constable Mark Buckingham during a police response to reports of an armed person at a service station. MacLeod had suffered severe head injury in…
27y · Male·unascertained; likely death from entering water
Thomas Hunt, a 27-year-old man, died after entering the water near Bondi Beach on 23 March 2017, likely after experiencing an acute mental health crisis characterised by paranoid delusions and auditory hallucinations. Mu…
23y · Male·Unknown - missing person, no conclusive evidence of death
Redae Berhane, a 23-year-old man with schizophrenia, severe stutter, and partial deafness, went missing on 6 August 2007 and has not been located despite extensive investigation. He had multiple psychiatric hospitalizati…
35y · Female·Stab wounds to the chest
Chan Chen, 35, was killed by her husband Andrew Luo in their home through stab wounds to the chest. Luo had displayed increasingly erratic behaviour throughout 2019, including delusions of persecution, beliefs that Chen …
45y · Male·gunshot wound to the chest
DP, a 45-year-old with a history of methylamphetamine use and drug-induced psychosis/schizophrenia, attended Quakers Hill Police Station on 19 January 2016 with a knife intending to provoke police into shooting him. His …
58y · Female·Mixed drug toxicity (oxycodone, temazepam, diazepam, oxazepam, citalopram, fluox…
Amanda Jane Stapledon, 58, died from mixed drug toxicity after intentionally taking her life. She was a former councillor and community advocate who became a person of interest in an IBAC anti-corruption investigation (O…
42y · Male·Anthony Young: multiple gunshot wounds to the body and arm; David Young: multipl…
Anthony Young, aged 42, shot by police after fatally stabbing his brother David and David's partner Louise. Anthony had deteriorating mental health including paranoia, substance use, and lack of psychiatric engagement de…
36y · Male·undetermined (possibly ethylene glycol poisoning; possibly natural cause such as…
A 36-year-old man with acute psychotic illness absconded from Ryde Hospital Emergency Department on 3 August 2013 after refusing oral antipsychotic medication. He evaded police efforts to locate him and was found dead in…
59y · Female·head injury
Ms Athiel Deng, a 59-year-old Sudanese refugee, was fatally assaulted by her son Majang Ngor during an acute psychotic episode induced by cannabis and methamphetamine use. Ngor had a documented first psychotic episode in…
31y · Male·Hanging
Timothy Garner, a First Nations man with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, died by hanging in custody at MRRC on 7 July 2018, five days after being cleared from Risk Intervention Team (RIT) management. The coroner foun…
37y · Male·stab wound to the chest penetrating the heart
A 37-year-old man with schizophrenia and a history of command auditory hallucinations died by self-inflicted stab wound to the chest. Released from psychiatric hospital on 11 April 2011 on voluntary arrangements without …
50y · Male·gunshot wounds to chest and abdomen
Alexander Kuskoff, aged 50, was fatally shot by STAR Group officer DA on 16 September 2015 following a mental health crisis. Kuskoff displayed florid psychotic symptoms including paranoid delusions, was heavily armed, an…
42y · Female·Multiple stab wounds
A 42-year-old woman with first episode psychosis was referred to community mental health services in November 2020 after acute onset of paranoid delusions. She was commenced on risperidone but showed poor engagement and …
45y · Female·Neck compression secondary to hanging
Claire Louise Carroll, 45, died by hanging while experiencing severe untreated psychotic symptoms including auditory hallucinations, paranoid delusions, and persecutory ideation. She had complex mental health diagnoses (…
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