2022-05-30
Supreme Court upholds miscarriage of justice finding in case of mentally ill man jailed for murdering infant son
Stage: Appeal
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; His lawyers argued that Mr Abdi's medical condition in the years after his sentence and symptoms and signs he exhibited over years which, when his overall psychiatric history was considered, led to his diagnosis being changed from one of depression and non-psychotic paranoid state to one of paranoid schizophrenia.