Tom Little QC prosecutes former Uruguayan diplomat for killing neighbour

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08/08/2018

At the Old Bailey His Honour Judge Leonard QC yesterday sentenced Enrique Facelli, a former Uruguayan diplomat for killing his neighbour in a long running dispute to a Hospital Order with restriction. The defendant was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia at the time and had been sectioned a couple of months earlier following an earlier incident at the deceased’s flat. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility. The case attracted national media publicity.

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