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Sat 10 Oct 2009Did a drug lead to killing?
Shane Clancy’s mother and stepfather alleged on ‘The Late Late Show’ that antidepressants caused him to stab three people, and then himself. However, no medical research has ever linked these drugs to homicide
ON AUGUST 16th, 22-year-old Sebastian Creane from Bray, Co Wicklow, was fatally stabbed by Shane Clancy, who also injured Sebastian’s brother Dylan and Jennifer Hannigan, Clancy’s ex-girlfriend. On October 2nd, Shane Clancy’s mother and stepfather, also from Bray, appeared on The Late Late Showto argue that in their view Shane’s behaviour was so uncharacteristic that it could only be explained by the fact that he had been taking antidepressants.
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