The squeeze on acute mental health beds in Auckland has been outlined at a murder trial in the High Court
The squeeze on acute mental health beds in Auckland has been outlined at a murder trial in the High Court
8 August 2018
Gabriel Yad-Elohim beat Michael Mulholland to death in the stairwell of a Western Springs apartment building.
The prosecution says Yad-Elohim is a drug addict who was motivated by revenge when a drug deal went wrong
But the prosecution says he had been released from a mental health clinic just three days before the killing, and was legally insane at the time.
When questioned, the service's clinical director, Dr Peter McColl, stood by the decision to release him, saying it was a "good discharge" from a clinic which had run out of bed space.
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