BMJ  2004;329:759 (2 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7469.759

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Deregistered psychiatrist convicted of murder

Melissa Sweet

Sydney

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A deregistered Sydney psychiatrist, Jean Eric Gassy, faces possible life imprisonment after being found guilty of the murder of a former colleague and senior Australian health official, Dr Margaret Tobin, who was involved in his removal from the medical register.

Australian psychiatrist Margaret Tobin was shot dead by Jean Eric Gassy, a former colleague who has now been convicted of her murder

Credit: DARREN SEILER/NEWSPIX

Dr Tobin was director of mental health services in South Australia at the time of her murder, at the age of 51 years, in October 2002 ( BMJ 2002;325: 1056[Free Full Text]). She was shot four times after returning from lunch to her office in the South Australia Health Department building in central Adelaide. The judge who heard the case, Justice Ann Vanstone, described it as an "execution style" killing in her summing up to the jury.

Mr Gassy was deregistered in 1997 . . . [Full text of this article]


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