Key point
- Diminished responsibility does not apply to voluntary intoxication
Facts
- D stabbed V 60 times
- D claimed the partial defence of diminished responsibility against the charge for murder, on the basis that he was acutely drunk
Held (Court of Appeal)
- D was rightly convicted for murder
- Voluntary intoxication does not fall within the scope of “recognised medical condition” under s2(1) Homicide Act 1957 as amended by the Coroners and Justice Act 2009