Jean Eric Gassy [SEP] convicted of
Jean Eric Gassy
Jean Eric Gassy is a deregistered medical practitioner who was convicted in October 2004 of the murder on 14 October 2002 of Dr. Margaret Tobin, then the head of government mental health services in South Australia. Dr Tobin was shot four times as she and her colleagues were walking away from the lift that she had taken to the eighth floor of the office (in Hindmarsh Square) in which she worked. He is now incarcerated in Yatala Prison.
Gassy was struck off in 1997 after being diagnosed with a
in the trial of Jean Eric Gassy lacked neutrality and "merely restated the essential elements of the prosecution case, with barely a reference to the defence case". Following the trial of Eric John Hooper for causing serious harm to Robin Hay, because of Hooper's dangerous driving, Vanstone was critical of the six-year delay between the crash in July 2009 and bringing charges in June 2013. Vanstone sentenced Hooper to five years in prison and disqualified him from driving for ten years. She was also the judge for the trial