Jean Eric Gassy
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Jean Eric Gassy is deregistered medical practitioner who was convicted in October 2004 of the murder on 14 October 2002 of Dr. Margaret Tobin, then the head of government mental health services in South Australia. Dr Tobin was shot four times as she was walking away from the lift that she had taken to the eighth floor of the office in which she worked.
Gassy was originally sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder. However, on 14 May 2008 both his conviction and sentence were quashed by the High Court of Australia following an appeal during which Gassy had represented himself. The High Court noted that "the trial judge's directions to a jury deadlocked after a day and a half of deliberations lacked neutrality, causing a substantial miscarriage of justice."[1] Gassy now awaits retrial on the same charge.
The appeal judgement, which contains all the preceding factual information about the murder, appears at http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/2008/18.html
