Can pills for depression turn you into a killer? In a shocking interview, a man who calls himself a loving father tells how he killed his son during a psychotic episode, caused, he says, by medication

‘David Carmichael, 59, calmly and methodically describes the events leading up to the day he killed his 11‑year-old son Ian.
He maintains his composure right up to the point when he describes his boy: ‘Oh man, he was the most loving child.’
His face clouds and he rocks with pain. ‘We spent so much time together and we got along great. He was a beautiful boy, a beautiful gift. I miss him so much.’
Ian had epilepsy and very mild dyslexia, but had no problems other than being a little behind with his reading. David was a nurturing and devoted dad, a sports coach from Toronto, Canada, who’d spent his entire professional life working with children.
But when David took Ian’s life during a psychotic episode, he was convinced that his wife Beth and daughter Gillian would thank him for getting rid of the ‘intolerable’ burden Ian had become.
David was tried for first-degree murder, but the judge ruled he was ‘not criminally responsible on account of a mental disorder’. Two forensic psychiatrists diagnosed him as being in a ‘major depression with psychotic episodes’ when he killed Ian.’
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