Citation

Sivasubramanium M, Vadysinghe AN, Thilakarathne SMNK. Arch. Med. Sadowej Kryminol. 2018; 68(3): 179-187.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Polish Forensic Medicine Society)

DOI

10.5114/amsik.2018.83095

PMID

30786659

Abstract

Self-strangulation should be cautiously determined following a comprehensive death investigation because the circumstance of strangulation is usually homicide. The deceased was a 33-year-old male who suffered from depression and was found missing from a psychiatric unit while on treatment. The deceased was found the following day in the doctors' car park of the unit. The deceased was in a prone position with a strip of material from the sarong he was wearing round his neck and features of strangulation. Scene investigation and autopsy with the history of psychiatric disease confirmed self-strangulation. The rarity of self-strangulation, especially in a hospital, and the ligature material used being a strip of material from the sarong he was wearing inspired us to report this case.

Language: en

Keywords

Humans; Adult; Male; Depression; suicide; Suicide; Asphyxia; Forensic Pathology; asphyxia; depression; Neck Injuries; ligature strangulation; self-strangulation