Hashman is the medical director and lead of forensic in-patient services at the Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre. Kenneth Hashman found that Thorpe was fit to stand trial in the second-degree murder death of 48-year-old Melanie Lowen whose body was found in her home in Airdrie on Jan. That was the ruling Friday afternoon, when Justice Suzanne Bensler determined that Alexander Thorpe was not criminally responsible by reason of a mental disorder.Įarlier in the day, a forensic psychiatric expert told court that Thorpe experienced an abnormal psychotic symptom triggered by attending a religious conference in Atlanta.ĭr. A judge has ruled that a 21-year-old Airdrie, Alta., man who admitted to killing his mother earlier this year is not criminally responsible for her death.
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