'Angel of Woolwich' Ingrid Loyau-Kennett detained under Mental Health Act

"N_Fiddledog" said
She said politically incorrect stuff so she got locked up as insane.

Gee...why does that sound so familiar?

Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (as amended)
This Act came into force on 30 September 1998 and created a number of specific offences of racially aggravated crime, based on offences of wounding, assault, damage, harassment and threatening/abusive behaviour. Monitoring had indicated that these types of crime were those most commonly experienced by victims of racial violence or harassment.

The Act was amended by the Anti-terrorism Crime and Security Act 2001, which came into effect on 14 December 2001. It extended the scope of the Crime and Disorder Act by creating new specific religiously aggravated offences and applying the same sentencing duty to all other offences where there is evidence of religious aggravation.

The Act was amended further by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, which came into effect on 25 November 2012. It created new specific offences of stalking and it also created racially and religiously aggravated versions of these offences.

"andyt" said
Until proven otherwise, I'm going to go with the assumption that Britain has the same sort of legal protections for people detained under the mental health act as we do.

"andyt" said
Not sure I see the relevance to this case and your link.

"andyt" said
Until proven otherwise, I'm going to go with the assumption that Britain has the same sort of legal protections for people detained under the mental health act as we do. That means that the psychiatrist examining her will determine if she's just pissed off and racist or has a mental health problem.

I'm further going to guess that the story we read here isn't the whole story, that there were reasons other than racist cant that she was detained. Otherwise, she might have been charged with causing a disturbance if she refused to leave the premises when asked.

Sounds like they could have gone after her criminally if they were really out to get her.

Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union


In the Soviet Union, a systematic political abuse of psychiatry took place and was based on the interpretation of political dissent as a psychiatric problem. It was called "psychopathological mechanisms" of dissent.

During the leadership of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, psychiatry was used as a tool to eliminate political opponents ("dissidents") who openly expressed beliefs that contradicted official dogma. The term "philosophical intoxication" was widely used to diagnose mental disorders in cases where people disagreed with leaders and made them the target of criticism that used the writings by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin. Article 58-10 of the Stalin Criminal Code—which as Article 70 had been shifted into the RSFSR Criminal Code of 1962—and Article 190-1 of the RSFSR Criminal Code along with the system of diagnosing mental illness, developed by academician Andrei Snezhnevsky, created the very preconditions under which non-standard beliefs could easily be transformed into a criminal case, and it, in its turn, into a psychiatric diagnosis. Anti-Soviet political behavior, in particular, being outspoken in opposition to the authorities, demonstrating for reform, writing books were defined in some persons as being simultaneously a criminal act (e.g., violation of Articles 70 or 190-1), a symptom (e.g., "delusion of reformism"), and a diagnosis (e.g., "sluggish schizophrenia"). Within the boundaries of the diagnostic category, the symptoms of pessimism, poor social adaptation and conflict with authorities were themselves sufficient for a formal diagnosis of "sluggish schizophrenia."