We won't sue makers of Shane's anti depressants, says family.
Publication: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Publication Date: 18-APR-10 Format: Online
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-12582092/We-won-t-sue-makers.html
Byline: Valerie Hanley
THE parents of Shane Clancy, the student who killed his love rival and injured his former girlfriend in a frenzied knife attack, before killing himself, have ruled out taking any legal action over how their son was treated for depression.
Clancy, 22, was prescribed a month's supply of the controversial medication Cipramil three weeks before he stabbed art student Sebastian Creane to death at the young man's home in Bray, Co. Wicklow, last August.
After fatally stabbing Creane in the heart, the Trinity College student then plunged a nine-inch blade into former girlfriend Jennifer Hannigan's back with such ferocity that the handle broke.
He then used another knife to repeatedly stab Sebastian's older brother Dylan nine times before going into the back garden of the Creane family home and killing himself.
At an inquest into Clancy's death last week it emerged that when he carried out emerged that when he carried out this horrific litany of terror in the early hours of August 16 last, he had 'toxic to fatal' levels of Cipramil in his system.
The drug is manufactured by Lundbeck Ireland and expert Professor David Healy from Cardiff University told the inquest this medication has caused 'suicidal and homicidal thoughts' in a minority of patients.
The Committee on Safety in Medicine in Britain has advised against giving this drug to anyone under 18 years old because trials have suggested it may cause younger patients to become suicidal and violent.
Prof. Healy said he believed that Mr Clancy had suffered an adverse reaction to the drug.
But the makers of the drug claim trials have shown that the medication has 'the potential to reduce rather than provoke irritability, aggression and violent behaviour'. While experts and the pharmaceutical company differ, the Clancy family has decided against mounting a legal challenge on Cipramil's makers Lundbeck.
This weekend, a friend of Shane's parents, Patrick Clancy and Leonie Fennell, insisted that the family would not be suing over the medical treatment their son received.
The friend told the Irish Mail on Sunday: 'The Clancys will not be taking any legal action over the medical care Shane received.
'All they want to do is to alert other families about this drug.'
The tragic night in Bray was the culmination of a series of events. After an apparently amicable breakup with art student Jennifer Hannigan early last year, Shane Clancy spent months in a severe emotional slump. He would sit outside Jennifer's home 'crying' while repeatedly begging her to resume their relationship.
And in May of last year - two months after they had split up - Jennifer, 23, noticed her former boyfriend had cuts on his...
Publication: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Publication Date: 18-APR-10 Format: Online
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-12582092/We-won-t-sue-makers.html
Byline: Valerie Hanley
THE parents of Shane Clancy, the student who killed his love rival and injured his former girlfriend in a frenzied knife attack, before killing himself, have ruled out taking any legal action over how their son was treated for depression.
Clancy, 22, was prescribed a month's supply of the controversial medication Cipramil three weeks before he stabbed art student Sebastian Creane to death at the young man's home in Bray, Co. Wicklow, last August.
After fatally stabbing Creane in the heart, the Trinity College student then plunged a nine-inch blade into former girlfriend Jennifer Hannigan's back with such ferocity that the handle broke.
He then used another knife to repeatedly stab Sebastian's older brother Dylan nine times before going into the back garden of the Creane family home and killing himself.
At an inquest into Clancy's death last week it emerged that when he carried out emerged that when he carried out this horrific litany of terror in the early hours of August 16 last, he had 'toxic to fatal' levels of Cipramil in his system.
The drug is manufactured by Lundbeck Ireland and expert Professor David Healy from Cardiff University told the inquest this medication has caused 'suicidal and homicidal thoughts' in a minority of patients.
The Committee on Safety in Medicine in Britain has advised against giving this drug to anyone under 18 years old because trials have suggested it may cause younger patients to become suicidal and violent.
Prof. Healy said he believed that Mr Clancy had suffered an adverse reaction to the drug.
But the makers of the drug claim trials have shown that the medication has 'the potential to reduce rather than provoke irritability, aggression and violent behaviour'. While experts and the pharmaceutical company differ, the Clancy family has decided against mounting a legal challenge on Cipramil's makers Lundbeck.
This weekend, a friend of Shane's parents, Patrick Clancy and Leonie Fennell, insisted that the family would not be suing over the medical treatment their son received.
The friend told the Irish Mail on Sunday: 'The Clancys will not be taking any legal action over the medical care Shane received.
'All they want to do is to alert other families about this drug.'
The tragic night in Bray was the culmination of a series of events. After an apparently amicable breakup with art student Jennifer Hannigan early last year, Shane Clancy spent months in a severe emotional slump. He would sit outside Jennifer's home 'crying' while repeatedly begging her to resume their relationship.
And in May of last year - two months after they had split up - Jennifer, 23, noticed her former boyfriend had cuts on his...
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