Posted on 01/19/2020 4:52:14 PM PST by BenLurkin
Richard Maidment, 42, shot his partner Sarabeth Forbes after she returned to their home a day after moving out in April 2017.
At trial, Maidment was found not guilty of first degree murder by way of insanity.
He stood to inherit all of his wife's life insurance policy until her mother staked a claim to it for their 10-year-old son.
Maidment's mother, the boy's other grandmother, fought it on, claiming her mentally ill son was entitled to it.
The insurance company left it up to a court to decide and this week, Justice Frank Edwards decided to award the money to the woman's killer partner.
He is the same judge who acquitted him of murder...
Forbes' family have not yet responded to the decision but friends of hers said they were 'sickened' by it.
'Just a gut-wrenching feeling in the pit of your stomach that this can't be real, this can't be happening. But now it's happened twice.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I always thought that God COULD just un-create him and his "immortal" soul...poof.
I have dealt with a version of schizophrenia in my family
he may have met their definition of insanity.
they really do think people are trying to kill them ...after them..etc...at times.
It is a terrible world to live in for sufferers and families who have to deal with it go through A LOT
Crime pays nowadays.
So murder is legal in Canada now. Not surprising.
Well Canada gets the government it deserves. Hope they enjoy it.
Hey, schizophrenics!
This judge is trying to KILL YOU.
Many years ago when I worked at a “youth center” (juvenile prison) we had a kid, who along with his twin, murdered his step-father and left his step-mother (complicated family history) for dead. She survived but the two killers got 2/3rds of the life insurance settlement. Why? Because under MO law at the time, the boys weren’t convicted of murder, they were convicted of ‘delinquency’. I actually saw the check that was deposited into his canteen account.
I imagine the same applies in Canada. Murderers cannot profit from their crime, but since the man was acquitted by grounds of insanity, he is not legally a murderer. Sometimes, to quote Dickens, “the law is a ass”.
This is not the first time this kind of thing has happened and I don't care if he is nuttier then a fruitcake or just evil. He (or rather his mother) should not profit from his crime.
The judge will join him in the lower regions
All judges are appointed rather than elected in Canada. So most of them tend to be socially liberal. Except for Supreme Court justices, the rest are appointed by provincial governments. So it’s not a big task for the federal Liberals but it often turns out that judges are associated with that party anyway.
An old saying applies here: If that is the law, then the law is an ass.
You have my sympathy, a best friend's brother suffered from this horrible disease for many years.......
He is the same judge who acquitted him of murder...
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No conflict of interest there. /sarc
I have friends from Canada who became American citizens, and said that they were kind of ‘embarrassed’ to have to show an American passport when traveling. They should have been ashamed for having a Canadian passport.
The parties may not have had a choice (don’t know how Canadian courts operate} but if they did have a choice then the child’s lawyer should have insisted on another judge hearing this matter.
Just my opinion.
I was handling the VA disability money for a few years but had to get out for my own sanity..and safety! Told VA to take it over for him.
People who have never dealt with it just don’t understand why I say they should not have guns.
There must be something twisted about that judge.
Handguns are practically banned in Canada
How did a mentally ill person get a gun?
Who vouched for him on his PAL
Did his instructor not sense something was off with this dude?
I wonder if his bank account will mysteriously expand?
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