The Montrealer accused of needlessly beating a 10-year-old girl in the middle of the street was finally declared not criminally responsible due to mental disorders.
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Last March, Tanvir Singh violently attacked a little girl when she left school at lunchtime, in Pointe-aux-Trembles.
It was experts from the Philippe-Pinel National Institute of Forensic Psychiatry who came to this conclusion, before a judge made it official.
In response to this outcome, the Crown requested that Mr. Singh be given the designation of high-risk defendant. This designation may “have several implications with respect to the discharge of the accused from the psychiatric hospital”, but it also offers “judicial control, since the Court can control certain aspects which are usually devolved to the review board “, specified Me Annabelle Sheppard, prosecutor of the Crown.
This decision does not necessarily mean that the accused will be released, and indications might see him being forced to be detained in hospital. He might, for example, undergo strict control of his outings in particular.