Exonerated By Revelation
Can this possibly be the ultimate in naivete, to believe that if you reveal how you feel, claim innocence of wrong doing simply because you cannot recall an incident or what compelled you to violently end someone's life, you can be forgiven? That the laws that are put in place in a civil society to protect people from the harm that others may seek to inflict on them cannot possibly impact on you because you consider yourself innocent of intent to harm.Despite having inflicted the most brutal injuries upon another human being that can possibly be imagined. After which taking the time and the energy to manipulate that dead body and disassembling it as though it represented a side of beef to be cut apart, neatly piled up so it no longer resembles a human being. Then calmly presenting oneself at the closest police station to proclaim "I came to turn myself in because I killed someone".
This man, Sydney Teerhuis, while agreeing that he killed, decapitated and cut apart the body of an innocent stranger whom he had just met that very evening, feels himself free of guilt in the man's monstrously bizarre murder. For he claims to have had no memory of what had occurred, although he had sufficient presence of mind to understand that despite the lapse of memory, it was he who had committed that horrendous murder and its aftermath.
His defence lawyer informed jurors that his client was innocent of the "state of mind" that would require him to be found guilty of the bizarrely gruesome murder. All the more difficult to absorb since there is no history of mental illness in the killer, nor does he claim mental illness as a defence. Evidently, to his mind, it represents just one of those spontaneous events that occasionally occur. That's life, right? Or death.
The killer met a stranger in a hotel lounge, and they engaged in friendly conversation. After which they agreed to go to the killer's suite at the Royal Albert Arms Hotel. Hours later the stranger had been stabbed 68 times in his upper torso, cut into eight pieces, beheaded and castrated. One of his eyes had been removed. His internal chest organs had been removed from his chest cavity, and never found even though police conducted an intensive search of the area.
The murderer treated police to a visit to uncharted territory of human depravity when he confronted them and announced "I chopped up a body in my bathtub". Their shock and his composure were ill-matched to the crime scene. Yet the murderer and the lawyer working on his behalf, feel justified in claiming he is innocent of intent, has no recollection, and cannot therefore be found guilty.
Labels: Justice, Particularities/Peculiarities
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, December 02, 2008
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