Arrest after tourist dies in car rampage

Judge said it may have been a crazy scheme, ‘but it was a very real plan’

The child killer suffers from long-term paranoid schizophrenia which does not "just fade away and die", according to the clinician in charge of his care

Paranoid schizophrenic Matthew Tvrdon, 31, admitted the manslaughter of Karina Menzies through diminished responsibility last month

Wu Yuanhong beat a 13-year-old to death in his local village

In the roll-call of student summer reading certain volumes stand out, including Desmond Morris's body language phenomenon The Naked Ape and Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull. To those can be added a volume by Robert M Pirsig that snuggled its way into every hitchhiker's hand-crocheted body satchel. Unlike Bach, whose books were like being hit with a wiffle bat full of pot-pourri, Pirsig is the real deal. Born in 1928, this precocious university student was eventually expelled for studying too hard, after growing bewildered by the choice of multiple hypotheses in his chosen field, biochemistry. Overwhelmed by the limitations of science, he tackled Eastern philosophy instead, spending time in India before returning to a US college.

If we only ever talk about schizophrenia in the context of a violent murder, is it any surprise that the public think people with mental illness are dangerous?

Sean Rigg, a musician who died shortly after being arrested by police, had a 20-year history of mental illness.

Multiple mistakes by police in dealing with people suffering from mental illness could have contributed to dozens of deaths, an independent commission concluded today.

Scientists have identified a group of patients with a genetic predisposition to mental illness, opening up for the first time the prospect of personalised medicine in psychiatry.

The strange tale of a man with demons

Two serving and one retired Metropolitan Police officer were arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.

People suffering from mental illness are almost five times more likely to be victims of murder than the general population, researchers have found .

Deyan Deyanov committed the crime during an attack of paranoid schizophrenia, and was therefore not held criminally responsible