Where an offender has voluntarily ceased prescribed psychiatric medication and consumed alcohol knowing its effect on their mental health, the causal connection between mental disorder and offending is necessarily limited, restricting the weight that can be placed on Verdins limb 1 (moral culpability) and potentially limbs 3 and 4 (general and specific deterrence).
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