KILLER COULD GET LEAVE
27.09.1996
By TONY KOCH chief reporter
CONFESSED killer Ross Farrah will be
allowed escorted leave from the psychiatric hospital where he is held
if his psych
iatrist agrees.
Farrah, 26, confessed on Oct
ober 26 last year to killing former girlfriend Christine Nash at
Coolum, on the Sunshine Coast.
Farrah, a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, told police he had
kicked Ms Nash in the face 25 times and then strangled her.
A subsequent hearing of the Mental Health Tribunal found he was of
unsound mind at the time of the offence, and he was committed to the
John Oxley Memorial Hospital.
Tribunal head Supreme Court Justice Paul de Jersey said in his
judgment: ""The patient is a severely unstable and highly dangerous
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