Trial of father accused of murdering infant son in 2001 opens at Central Criminal Court

A prosecuting barrister said the matter of insanity is at issue in Yusif Ali Abdi's case, but that there is a large amount of agreement between the parties in relation to this.

A psychiatrist who gave evidence at a 2003 trial that a man, who subsequently spent 16 years in jail for the murder of his infant son, was not suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, is now of the view that the man displayed early signs of the mental condition at the time, a jury has heard.

It was during the opening of the trial of Yusif Ali Abdi at the Central Criminal Court today that a prosecuting barrister said the matter of insanity is at issue in the case but that there is a large amount of agreement between the parties in relation to this.