Building a Great Railroad by Glenn Hoffmann

The third man to die was Hoffmann’s good mate Michael Sisois. Hoffman then allegedly shot Nigel Hellings through the front door at the 75-year-old’s apartment block about 800m away. Prosecutor Lloyd Babb SC said Hoffmann’s first victim, Hassan Baydoun, was fatally shot four times at the Palms motel in central Darwin.

The crown says Hoffmann was searching for his ex-girlfriend, Kelly Collins, and a man she said she loved, Alex Deligiannis, when the killings happened. “He became disinhibited and he was angry to the point that he acquired weapons and he searched for specific people who he believed had injured him by poisoning and who he believed had led his girlfriend astray,” she said.Īfter the killings, Hoffmann told police he believed he’d been poisoned the night before and it had caused him to be “out of his mind” and temporarily insane. The court has heard Hoffmann, who suffers an anti-social personality disorder, was high on methamphetamine during the rampage.įorensic physician Angela Sungalia said the drug was unlikely to have caused him to suffer a psychotic episode but it could have caused him to become paranoid, aggressive and violent. Parker also said he found no signs that Hoffmann had been poisoned, as he had claimed, or of involuntary intoxication.

“Ben was not suffering a significant disturbance of mood or psychosis or active cognitive impairment,” he said. However, he said Hoffmann appeared to be struggling to adjust to prison life while he was on remand before his trial.Įarlier, Parker said he concluded Hoffmann wasn’t suffering from a “significant psychiatric illness” following an assessment on 4 June soon after the shootings. Parker came to the conclusion Hoffmann wasn’t suffering from psychosis and said there was no evidence he had been suffering hallucinations. if his thoughts are really his own,” he said, reading from his medical notes. He also said he’d been hearing his mother’s voice and was reading the Bible in his cell, Parker told the Northern Territory supreme court on Thursday. “Even though I look healthy, I feel like my mind is fucked,” Hoffmann was reported to have said, according to notes taken at the examination.

Building a Great Railroad by Glenn Hoffmann