139 results for “paranoid_schizophrenia”
46y · Female·Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Chantelle Adele Cartier, a 46-year-old woman who had been a resident at Thomas Embling Hospital (a forensic mental health facility) for 10 years, died from acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in November 2012. She was diagnose…
Unknown·Mia: Stab wound to heart; Thomas: Stab wound to brain
Two young UK backpackers, Mia Ayliffe-Chung (20) and Thomas Jackson (30), were fatally stabbed at a Queensland hostel on 23 August 2016 by a French backpacker, Smail Ayad, who was psychotic and cannabis-intoxicated. Ayad…
30y · Male·unascertained
Bayden Quilkey, 30, died from unascertained causes on 13 March 2008 during an acute psychotic episode while being restrained by police. He had recently moved from Queensland showing signs of paranoid schizophrenia with s…
52y · Male·Multiple blunt force injuries from a fall from height
A 52-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia subject to a Community Treatment Order died from injuries sustained after jumping from a third-floor balcony during enforcement of the order. Mental health workers and police…
44y · Male·Ligature compression of the neck (hanging)
Geoffrey Stephen Ward, a 44-year-old involuntary psychiatric patient at Graylands Hospital with chronic paranoid schizophrenia, died by hanging on 20 February 2000. He had been progressing well on antipsychotic medicatio…
53y · Male·ligature compression of the neck (hanging)
John Stephen Passmore, a 53-year-old man with severe treatment-resistant paranoid schizophrenia, died by suicide while on community leave from psychiatric hospital. He had been an involuntary patient at Graylands Hospita…
29y · Male·Injuries sustained in a fall from a height
A 29-year-old man with chronic paranoid schizophrenia died from injuries sustained after jumping from the EJ Whitten Bridge. He had a 5-year history of psychiatric illness with recurrent psychotic episodes despite treatm…
26y · Male·Ligature compression of the neck (Hanging)
Scott Davidson, a 26-year-old recently sentenced prisoner with paranoid schizophrenia, died by suicide in Casuarina Prison on 5 June 2000. Following sentencing to 9 years imprisonment, he was transferred to Casuarina Pri…
66y · Male·Multiple blunt force injuries
JSZ, a 66-year-old forensic patient with chronic paranoid schizophrenia, died by suicide while on unsupervised day leave from Cumberland Hospital's Bunya Unit on 20 September 2023. He jumped from a cliff at Queen Elizabe…
20y · Unknown·Traumatic brain damage complicating gunshot wound to the head
Two young adults aged 20 died from gunshot wounds to the head on 29-30 May 2001 in what appears to be a murder-suicide involving Peter Klingner and his girlfriend Cheree Dinsdale. Klingner had paranoid schizophrenia with…
86y · Male·Oesophageal perforation
An 86-year-old man with treatment-resistant paranoid schizophrenia residing in a secure psychiatric unit died from oesophageal perforation. He experienced two unwitnessed falls on 20 October 2024 and declined post-fall m…
48y · Male·Cardiomegaly and fatty liver in a man with alcohol intoxication
Steven Karastavrou, a 48-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia, poly-substance abuse (alcohol, cannabis, amphetamines), hypertension, high cholesterol, and diabetes, died suddenly at home from cardiomegaly and fatty l…
36y · Male·Gunshot wound to the forehead
A 36-year-old man with a 10-year history of forensic mental health order died by gunshot wound during a siege after police arrived to enforce psychiatric hospitalisation. The coroner found mental health care was appropri…
38y · Male·ligature compression of the neck (hanging)
Mark Quenton Fleury, a 38-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia, died by suicide on 14 February 2016 while subject to a Community Treatment Order. In the final week of his life, he presented to emergency services and …
25y · Male·multiple injuries sustained in aircraft crash
Bryan G (Abel Dallos), a 25-year-old man with longstanding paranoid schizophrenia and treatment resistance, died in an aircraft crash after stealing an unlocked Piper Warrior from Alice Springs Airport and attempting to …
41y · Male·Hanging
Franky Houdini, aged 41, died by hanging in his prison cell at Wolston Correctional Centre on 2 June 2015. He was subject to an involuntary treatment order for paranoid schizophrenia and was undergoing dangerous prisoner…
40y · Female·The medical cause of death was unable to be determined. Manner of death: uninten…
Christine Young, a 40-year-old Aboriginal woman with paranoid schizophrenia, absconded from a locked mental health inpatient unit and walked into desert scrubland where she died. Critical clinical lessons include: (1) fa…
44y · Male·unascertained - may have been injury from fall, drowning, or predation from mari…
David Ingram, a 44-year-old deckhand, disappeared from the cargo vessel Maersk Mover on 24 September 2021 in the Indian Ocean off Exmouth, WA. He had an undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenia with a history of anxiety, depre…
34y · Male·cardiomegaly with contributing aspiration
A 34-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia, morbid obesity, type 1 diabetes, and undiagnosed sleep apnoea died from cardiomegaly with contributing aspiration while detained under the Mental Health Act. On 6 March, he …
50y · Male·coronary artery atherosclerosis causing sudden fatal cardiac arrhythmia
Ejub Mehinovic, a 50-year-old man with treatment-resistant paranoid schizophrenia managed on clozapine, died from coronary artery atherosclerosis causing sudden fatal cardiac arrhythmia. He was under a Community Treatmen…
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