FATHER WITH SEVERE PSYCHOSIS DROPS BABY FROM BRIDGE AND IS DETAINED IN HOSPITAL
TORMENTED Kevin Moy, 32, who threw his two-week-old son to his death from a bridge because he thought the child was the Devil, was ordered to be detained in the State Hospital at Carstairs yesterday after a jury found him not guilty of murder because he was insane at the time.The High Court in Glasgow heard how Moy came to believe he was the anti-Christ and that his son was Satan.
Moy was sure the Devil had put a birthmark on the boy's head and that he and the infant were to blame for the Gulf war.
He also feared they would destroy the world by infecting mankind with a virus.
Later he told police he had to save the world by killing both his son and himself.
Moy was also obsessed by the number six, traditionally linked to the Devil.
The court heard that Moy had worked as a lab technician until he contracted ME eight years ago and suffered depression.
But there was no sign of the tragedy to follow when he visited his wife Eileen and son, born last September 26, in hospital.
She returned home with the baby, but Moy stayed with his parents because he needed care for his depression.
But tragedy struck when Moy and his wife took Eoghan for his first outing on a sunny day last October.
As they stood at Overtoun Bridge near a Dumbarton beauty spot, Moy suddenly dropped the baby to the wooded banks of a burn 42ft below then tried to throw himself over, but was dragged back by his screaming wife.
Bystanders scrambled down the steep banks, where Eoghan lay fatally injured.
He died in hospital next day.
Moy was taken to nearby Overtoun House, where he grabbed a kitchen knife and tried to slash his wrists before he was arrested.
The jury was told that Moy's act was either beyond all comprehension or the result of an illness which is also beyond the comprehension of ordinary human beings.
Moy sat staring ahead with a nurse from the State Hospital sitting nearby during the two-day hearing.
The judge ordered Moy to be detained until doctors consider him fit to leave, with the final decision resting with the Scottish Secretary.
