X v United Kingdom: ECHR 5 Oct 1972

A complaint by a prisoner that as a mentally disordered person he should have been held in a psychiatric hospital rather than a prison was rejected as inadmissible.

Citations:

(Unreported 5 October 1972)

Jurisdiction:

Human Rights

Cited by:

CitedRegina v Drew HL 8-May-2003
The defendant was mentally ill. He had been convicted of a second serious offence, and now appealed the life sentence imposed. Psychiatrists had recommended a hospital order, but such an order could not now be made by virtue of the 2000 Act save in . .
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Human Rights, Prisons, Health

Updated: 12 May 2022; Ref: scu.182173