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Thu 04 Apr 2003It is not easy to get help for a violent personANALYSIS: There is little provision to prevent violent attacks by disturbed young people, writes Carol Coulter, Legal Affairs CorrespondentA very disturbed young man, but one capable of distinguishing between right and wrong, was how a forensic psychiatrist described Brian Willoughby. This distinction meant he could be convicted of murder and sentenced.