Lizzie sez: "Just one thing you might like to know about Miss Pink, she is a former INMATE of Broadmoor, the highest category psychiatric hospital in the country".

Patient not "inmate", Lizzie. It's a hospital and this isn't the 19th century. And not everyone there is a Sutcliffe or Brady.

I can tell you, as a mental health worker, that the police and the judicial system have a terrible track record of discounting and ignoring and refusing to hear the testimony of people with mental health needs. It's still happening today - my colleagues and I deal with the fall-out from this institutional discrimination against the mentally ill all the time. As a supposed champion of the oppressed, please don't play the same game - especially not as a cheap shot in support of a convicted sex offender.

Spend any length of time working with people with severe mental health problems and you'll find a disproportionate number who suffered sexual or physical abuse as children. Add in those who were emotionally abused and the figures are shocking. Some professionals are now argumeuing that in some cases serious mental health issues are a form of post traumatic stress disorder.

http://psychcentral.com/news/2012/04/20/childhood-trauma-linked-to-schizophrenia