Court rejects claims by woman that her detention in mental hospital amounts to torture

The High Court has dismissed a female patient's claims that her continued detention in seclusion at a psychiatric hospital is unlawful on the grounds that it amounts to torture and inhuman treatment.

The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, has suffered from serious psychiatric illnesses for many years and was also the victim of a violent rape, has been shadowed by security after she attacked a nurse at the hospital she has been detained at.