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The man who brutally stabbed paramedic Steven Tougher to death has been cleared of his murder on mental health grounds, leaving a family searching for answers.

Chilling details have been revealed into the stabbing death of paramedic Steven Tougher as his killer pleaded not guilty on grounds of mental illness.

The family of a 17-year-old has told a court the ongoing impact her death has had, as her murderer who feigned symptoms of mental disorders faces sentencing.

An angry man's hour-long shooting in suburbia without doing much to disguise himself was a "mad act", a medical expert has told a jury.

Two medical experts differ on whether an angry neighbour behind a fatal NSW shooting rampage was severely affected by a mental illness at the time.

Melissa Caddick's husband has told her inquest he believed his wife was a straight shooter but now understands she was a fraudster.

A man who strangled a 16-year-old boy to death at a unit in Charlestown last year was suffering from a temporary, substance-induced psychosis directly related to his use of methamphetamine, a jury has been told.