{"id":833022,"date":"2025-03-10T14:12:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T19:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/psychiatrist-thinks-convicted-murderer-believed-he-was-an-anime-character-at-time-of-crime\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T14:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T19:12:01","slug":"psychiatrist-thinks-convicted-murderer-believed-he-was-an-anime-character-at-time-of-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/psychiatrist-thinks-convicted-murderer-believed-he-was-an-anime-character-at-time-of-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychiatrist Thinks Convicted Murderer Believed He Was an Anime Character at Time of Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Psychiatrist Thinks Convicted Murderer Believed He Was an Anime Character at Time of Crime<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tby Danica Davidson<\/a>
\n <\/i> January 13, 2025 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Bleach\"
\nA case of murder in New Zealand has taken a new turn involving anime. In 2017, Gabriel Hikari Yad-Elohim \u2014 whose birth name appears to be Jung Hoon Song \u2014 viciously murdered 69-year-old Michael Mulholland. Yad-Elohim, who is now 36, had recently been discharged from the Auckland District Health Board\u2019s acute mental health unit, and he didn\u2019t know Mulholland. He struck the man nearly 100 times.<\/p>\n

Yad-Elohim and his defense team contended that he had schizophrenia and was mentally ill,<\/a> caught up in a delusion when the crime happened. The jury didn\u2019t buy it, and he was sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n

Allegedly Yad-Elohim has hallucinations and believes he sees ghosts. He said to people in healthcare that his name was Yuuki Watanabe and he was Japanese, which is not accurate. He gave the police a monologue in Japanese. And he insisted that at the time of the crime, he thought he was an anime character.<\/p>\n

James Cavney, a forensic psychiatrist, discovered a scene in Bleach<\/em> that is similar to the crime. He theorizes that Yad-Elohim was so mentally unstable he believed he was an anime character at the time of the murder. Though Radio New Zealand\u2019s coverage wasn\u2019t clear on details, it said that Yad-Elohim\u2019s Japanese monologue matched up with something from Bleach<\/em>.<\/p>\n

These arguments were taken to the New Zealand Supreme Court. The Supreme Court declared, \u201cWe have considered the video and the transcript of Mr Yad-Elohim\u2019s monologue. Dr Cavney identifies several similarities between the video and the attack on Mr Mulholland and there are similarities also with Mr Yad-Elohim\u2019s monologue. . . The evidence is significant and appears credible, but on a leave application it is difficult for us to gauge its impact on the other expert evidence led at trial and on appeal, and on its implications for the verdict.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court wants this new evidence taken before the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis application for leave to appeal to this court is dismissed, without prejudice to his right to seek leave to appeal [to the Supreme Court] after the Court of Appeal has considered any recall application,\u201d the Supreme Court announced.<\/p>\n

Source: RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n

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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling\u00a0Manga Art for Beginners\u00a0<\/i><\/a>with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel,\u00a0Manga Art for Everyone<\/em><\/a>, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book\u00a0Chalk Art Manga<\/a><\/em>, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at\u00a0www.danicadavidson.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Danica Davidson
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