00:00Well this all began in 2017 when Alex Ophel was a university student.
00:08He took a baseball bat to class one day and attacked his tutor and a number of other students
00:13and ended up with five charges of attempted murder and he was found not guilty by reason
00:20of mental impairment over that because he suffers from schizophrenia.
00:25So he had been detained for some time and then there came a point where the authorities
00:31supervising him decided he could have conditional release to go for a walk and this is how he
00:37was able to be free on the day of the stabbing of these two students at the university.
00:43He went back to the university via his own parents home, they weren't there, they'd been
00:48overseas at the time and he collected a fry pan and then he saw a knife so he picked that
00:53up as well and went to the university and stabbed two female students there and is now headed
01:00for indefinite detention in a mental health facility.
01:06So what does today's sentence mean?
01:10Well it's a nominated sentence so technically now he's been handed over to the ACT's Civil
01:17and Administrative Tribunal, the same tribunal that was managing his case before.
01:23They now have authority to keep him in a mental health facility, a secure mental health facility
01:31indefinitely or for as long as they deem necessary.
01:35The problem for Alex Othell is that it's been determined fairly recently that he has treatment
01:42resistant schizophrenia so the drugs don't work as well on him as they might on other people
01:49and that's his main problem.
01:52So he will now be supervised back in detention and obviously getting some freedom will be a whole
02:01lot more difficult than it was in the past.
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