Forensic Psychiatrist, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry
BSc (Hons), MBCHB, FRCPsych, MD
Oxfordshire, Berks, Bucks and surrounding counties
Expertise includes mental health of people in custody, serious offenders, and fitness to plead and stand trial. International authority on the mental health of prisoners, prison suicide, and the relationship between mental disorders and criminality.
Expert witness for the UN-backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal on fitness to plead and stand trial for Case 002.
I have written psychiatric reports at the request of the CPS and defence solicitors on competence to stand trial, homicide and sexual offenders, and other violent offenders, and for professional bodies (including the GMC) on fitness to work and competence.