Madeleine Pulver and Paul Douglas Peters. Source: Herald Sun
HOAX collarbomber Paul Douglas Peters committed a "very clumsy crime" in fixing a fake collarbomb around Madeleine Pulver's neck, a court heard today.
Jonathan Phillips, one of the psychiatrists to examine him, has said the 52-year-old was most likely in an episode "of psychosis" when editing his chilling ransom note.
Professor Phillips says that the crime, to which he pleaded guilty to earlier this year, was carried out by a man "in a highly disturbed state."
Earlier the Sydney District Court heard that Peters wanted to track down the people who he believed were the beneficiaries of a multimillion trust.
Peters told police that "half his job" was writing his treasured novel, the other was "tracking down the trustee", who he believed was in Sydney.
The court heard that the USB stick which formed part of the device strapped around Ms Pulver's neck contained information about the trust.
Professor Phillips told the court that some of the complexity of Peters was that he exhibited normal behaviour in many facets of his life, but had a "breach of reality" in others such as when speaking about the novel and the trust.
Peters is expected to be sentenced later this year for breaking into the Mosman home of schoolgirl Madeleine Pulver on August 3, 2011 and placing a fake collarbomb device around her neck with a ransom note attached.
Since his arrest two weeks after the incident, Peters has been examined by three psychiatrists who agree he suffers from a "depressive condition", the Sydney District Court heard today.
Professor Jonathan Phillips, who examined Peters in February this year and earlier this month, says Peters is "one of the most difficult examinations I have ever had to carry out."
Professor Phillips said Peters presented as "intelligent and articulate" and had lived a life largely "free of mental illness."
But the court heard that when Peters began to speak about the novel he was writing, his usually "concise" thoughts "became fragmented."
Professor Phillips says the book was "very difficult to read."
"He lost me when he began to talk about it." he said.
The hearing continues before Judge Peter Zahra.
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