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Nick Kyrgios in remake of One Flew…

AddicksAddict
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/oct/04/nick-kyrgios-will-seek-to-have-assault-charge-dismissed-on-mental-health-grounds-court-hears?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Dangerous card to play? Could he find himself committed indefinitely?

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  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,000
    AddicksAddict said:
    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/oct/04/nick-kyrgios-will-seek-to-have-assault-charge-dismissed-on-mental-health-grounds-court-hears?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

    Dangerous card to play? Could he find himself committed indefinitely?
    Very unlikely honestly, more probable that if they accept the reasoning he will have mandatory therapy or treatment of some kind.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    edited October 2022
    Courts (at least in the UK) are very used to seeing the "mental health" card played in the course of attempted legal malingering by defendants. It rarely succeeds and is often a desperate last throw by a defence that would otherwise be sunk without trace. At the very least you'd expect some independent psychiatric tests being ordered by the court.

    A usual question is "What colour is grass?". If the response is "wibble, wibble, my head hurts" or some abusive language, you know the individual is a malingerer. It seems mad people do know what colour grass is. I suspect this particularly applies to tennis players.

     
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    good tennis player but a boring boring attention seeking waste of space ..

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