The Canberra Times reports that a 60yo man who caused the death of a motorcylist in 2006 is unfit to plead due to alcohol-related dementia with the judge quoted as saying he would not be able to understand the nature of the charge or his rights in relation to the jury, and he would not be able to follow the trial proceedings or instruct his lawyers.
A doctor’s report says that he suffered from an amnesic syndrome as a result of frontal lobe degeneration found in alcohol-related dementia, which affected ”encoding of new information as well as retrieval of past information”
This level of impairment is pretty extreme so WTF was he doing behind the wheel of a lethal weapon? Especially given that several people I know have had their licence revoked immediately upon diagnosis of Alzheimers.
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