Monash University shooter Huan Yun Xiang to remain locked away after stabbing hospital staff member in the neck
THE Monash shooter will remain locked away at the Thomas Embling Hospital until at least 2024 for stabbing a staff member in the neck.
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THE Monash shooter will remain locked away at the Thomas Embling Hospital until at least 2024 for stabbing a staff member in the neck.
Huan Yun Xiang, who has been held in the psychiatric hospital since killing two and injuring five classmates when he opened fire in 2002, was charged with recklessly causing serious injury after stabbing the staff member in October 2015.
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The victim was lucky not to have been more seriously injured and has been left with post-traumatic stress disorder.
At the time of the stabbing, Xiang’s doctors thought his mental health was improving and he had been given greater freedom and moved to a less secure unit of the hospital.
After the stabbing, Xiang calmly left the room and calmly went outside and sat under a tree.
“The accused got up suddenly and stabbed her in the neck with a kitchen paring knife. The knife had a seven centimetre blade. After being stabbed in the neck, (the victim) put her left hand up to cover her neck which was bleeding and was then stabbed again at least twice to her left hand. The accused then chased her around the conference table,” Supreme Court Justice Jane Dixon said in September.
This morning, Justice Dixon ordered Xiang, 50, remain in a secure unit of the hospital without access to potential weapons for a further seven and half years.
“He thought (the victim) was an agent to thwart his leave,” psychiatrist Yvonne Skinner earlier told the court.
Xiang, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, believed the victim was also conspiring with the family of one of the Monash victims and the United States and Chinese governments.
Xiang continues to suffer from hallucinations and kept his delusional thoughts about the victim to himself — fooling treating staff in to believing his mental health was improving.
Justice Dixon found Xiang not guilty by reason of mental impairment.
He is medicated with Clozapine, Citalopram and Diazepam.
