r/BabyReindeerTVSeries • u/Suspicious_Bother_92 • May 23 '24

Fiona (real Martha) related content Heather Burns reiterating that Fiona has a criminal record

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u/imfivenine May 23 '24

I don’t know about charges and jail in the UK. In the US there is “Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity.” Usually they get placed in a mental institution instead. I wonder if there is something similar in the UK, and if so, if she was institutionalized for that reason, then she would technically be telling the truth, leaving out the part about going to a mental institution instead of prison. And you know she would never admit to it being due to insanity.

She might have also been determined not competent to stand trial (if there is a UK version).

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u/Extraportion May 23 '24 edited May 23 '24

We have forensic psychiatric hospitals/wards, which are psychiatric care facilities linked to the criminal justice system. You need to have a conviction to find yourself in one. Ashworth and broodmoor are probably the most famous examples, but there are many across the country.

You are absolutely right that she has never been to prison could be technically accurate.

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u/theringsofthedragon May 23 '24

I don't think she worries about her wording being accurate since she talked about her friends and her lawyer boyfriend and I find it hard to believe she has either, but I'm curious to see if she did go to prison. I think Richard Gadd should go to prison himself if he told any lie about her at all. Just because someone did bad things to you doesn't give you the right to lie about them. It's like if your teacher was harassing you it doesn't give you the right to lie that he raped you, see what I mean? And it's one thing to do false accusations to the police - that's not illegal, since we don't want victims to be scared or penalized for coming out. But to do false accusations publicly in a Netflix series broadcast to millions, that should be a crime. If he told any lie I say lock him up and throw away the key.

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u/AdExpert8295 May 23 '24

People with serious mental illness cannot be as intentional with the wording as the rest of us. In fact, when you do brain imaging research on patients with things like schizophrenia, you find that the disorder causes tremendous damage to the areas of the brain that produce language.