Murder Zoloft* 24/05/2001 Australia *Man Found Not Guilty Using Zoloft Defense
 
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       <td width="175"><a href="http://ssristories.drugawareness.org/archive/show5f52.html?item=1921">Murder</a></td>
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       <td width="100">2001-05-24</td>
       <td width="100">Australia</td>
       <td width="639"><strong>*Man Found Not Guilty Using Zoloft Defense</strong></td>
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Summary:<br><br><br /><div><div><a href="http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/riverina/regriv-24may2001-3.htm">http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/riverina/regriv-24may2001-3.htm</a></div><br /><div><strong>Court finds drug made man kill wife</strong></div><br /><div><strong><u>A New South Wales Supreme Court judge has found an elderly man would not have</u></strong></div><div><strong><u>killed his wife if he had not taken an overdose of the anti-depressant,</u></strong></div><div><strong><u>Zoloft.</u></strong></div><br /><div>Justice Barry O&#39;Keefe says the case is a tragic reminder of the possible,</div><div>even dangerous, detrimental side-effects of the drug.</div><br /><div>David Hawkins, 76, of the southern New South Wales&#39; town of Tumbarumba,</div><div>strangled his wife of 50 years in August 1999, after a night in which he took</div><div>five times the recommended dose of Zoloft.</div><br /><div>He gave himself up to police almost immediately and was found by</div><div>psychiatrists to have been in a drug induced toxic delirium at the time,</div><div>suffering hallucinations and psychosis.</div><br /><div>He pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.</div><br /><div>Passing sentence, Justice O&#39;Keefe found but for taking the Zoloft, Mr Hawkins</div><div>would not have killed his wife.</div><br /><div>He sentenced him to three years&#39; jail, but ordered he be freed on parole on</div><div>July 31, this year.</div><br /></div> 
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