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Schizophrenic man who killed his common-law wife will receive ALL of her life insurance policy after Canadian judge rules he is 'not a criminal'
Daily Mail UK ^ | 01/19/2020 | Jennifer Smith

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 ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: canada; judiciary; lifeinsurance; murder
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To: BenLurkin

Maybe the killer’s mother is planning to name herself as conservator of his financial dealings. She can find ways to disguise a small salary for her management ‘skills’.
Easy retirement fund.


21 posted on 01/19/2020 5:54:33 PM PST by lee martell
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To: BenLurkin

Interesting.

The decision of the insurance company to leave the matter up to the judge is troubling. This cannot be the first time such a set of circumstances has occurred in the industry (and probably for this specific company as well).

I believe there is a principal in American insurance law (and, until reading this, I would have thought it was common to all insurance law worldwide) that the beneficiary of a life insurance policy cannot receive the proceeds of a policy if they committed a crime resulting in the insured’s death. The insured was unlawfully killed; that is, was murdered. The man was ruled to be not guilty by reason of insanity; but that doesn’t mean the crime of murder didn’t occur and it doesn’t mean he didn’t commit it. It simply means he was considered not responsible for his criminal actions at the time of the murder because of his deranged mental state.

The judge is allowing him to profit from the crime.


22 posted on 01/19/2020 6:13:36 PM PST by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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To: Kozak

Not that much differ t from what’s happening here.


23 posted on 01/19/2020 6:15:03 PM PST by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

Society is truly regressing.


24 posted on 01/19/2020 6:28:01 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Lazamataz

LOL! I’m ashamed that I laughed at that.


25 posted on 01/19/2020 6:34:02 PM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: BipolarBob

What crime?


26 posted on 01/19/2020 7:03:44 PM PST by libertylover (Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

So being accused is the same as guilty?


27 posted on 01/19/2020 7:04:56 PM PST by libertylover (Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
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To: libertylover

I don’t buy the excuse that insanity was guilty instead, no more than the gun is guilty. If he shot her, then he’s guilty of murder regardless of how insane he is.


28 posted on 01/19/2020 7:22:38 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: BenLurkin

Oh, those Whacky Canadians...


29 posted on 01/19/2020 7:34:32 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: BenLurkin

This is one of the poorest published stories I’ve read in some time. I read the whole thing and found no mention of the amount of the insurance settlement. That is certainly pertinent to those of us who want the facts. This is typical of what’s become of journalism.


30 posted on 01/19/2020 7:49:06 PM PST by Old Man From WV
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To: Old Man From WV

Not included in the excerpt was a sentence saying that the a.ount was not disclosed.


31 posted on 01/19/2020 7:58:38 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
Can an insane person kill a judge or a politician and walk away “innocent?”

This is NOT a threat . . . it is just a legitimate question.

32 posted on 01/19/2020 8:06:41 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: BenLurkin

At the very least, shouldn’t a conservator have control of the money?


33 posted on 01/19/2020 9:10:54 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Telepathic Intruder

No they’ve had abortion like us for a very long time.


34 posted on 01/19/2020 9:26:41 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin

Canada’s socialist health system will confiscate this for his treatment, that’s why


35 posted on 01/20/2020 1:46:02 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nick dip .com)
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To: RummyChick
I once got a call from my friend's brother who lived in northern Michigan that he was coming down to Detroit because he had an appointment with the French embassy downtown the next day (?????????) and could he spend the night at my place.

I said sure then immediately called his brother who lived down here too and Jack said he would come to my place after work.

Well, Skip showed up, spent the night and after I got home from work the next day, he was gone.....Sadly, they live in their own fantasy world and if they drop off their meds then they really get bad.

36 posted on 01/20/2020 3:12:36 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (I want an impeachment pen)
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