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Article: Judge orders teenage killer to Carstairs State Hospital must take evil youth until move to English specialist unit
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- February 13, 2006
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A TEENAGE killer who boasted he had jumped on his victim's head
until his skull cracked was ordered to be kept in Carstairs today -
despite being only 16.
A court heard there were no secure hospitals in Scotland where
Steven Brownlie could be sent.
Psychiatrists told judge Lady Paton the State Hospital, Carstairs,
could treat patients with the same mental problems as Brownlie - but
only if they were over 18.
But Lady Paton ordered Brownlie to be sent to the unit saying: "I
would be failing in my public duty if I were to nominate anywhere but
Carstairs as the place where Brownlie should go."
Other Scottish hospitals experienced in treating youngsters are
not secure enough to house a killer.
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