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'Robotic' drug user set fire to female friend during psychotic episode
DailyMail."It is a horrifying act to set another person on fire, ordinarily it would warrant a very significant sentence to condemn that conduct on behalf of the community," Judge Vicki Loury said."The person who would most want to condemn your conduct does not want to see you go to jail."On Friday, Nolan's family cried as his lawyer Joseph Briggs said there had been several failed attempts to get him help for schizophrenia prior to the attack.Judge Loury added: "You were suffering from an exacerbation of psychotic symptoms at the time of your offending, you used methamphetamines to alleviate some of your symptoms when you did not receive any assistance at the hospital."The court heard how the defendant had stayed at Ms Cole's home the
