Apparently Amy Winehouse's Dad has asked that she is compulsorily admitted to hospital under the mental health act because she is clearly "a danger to herself"
Unfortunatley for Dad Winehouse - in order to be "sectioned" you not only have to be a danger to yourself or to other people you also have to be suffering from a recognised mental illness. And poor old Amy is bad not mad.
Years ago I acted for a lady whose alcoholic husband would regularly drive his car through her front room window when pissed out of his mind. He was clearly a danger to loads of people. but as with Miss Winehouse bad and not mad, so all the police could do was arrest him every time and throw him into a cell to sober up.
There isn't any law - apart from affray and posession of narcotics that works in this situation. Should there be - should you be able to lock up a drunk or a drug addict just for being a drunk or a drug addict ?
I don't think so actually.
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Friday, January 25, 2008
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Driving into a swimming pool seems tame in comparison.
During the divorce I said my wife had a valuable sports horse. She said she had a knacked charity case. The truth was probably something in between.
She looks a frigging mess though... did you see those arms.. (shudder).. someone said something about 'dead girl walking' - On the bad taste side, at least I got to see her at the Isle of Wight festival last year...
On the even more bad taste side, a bookie is taking bets on when she'll shuffle off this mortal coil.
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