Richard Kachkar: Ryan Russell

Mental Illness Dept: Richard Kachkar, 44, appears to have been suffering for several years from a low-grade mental illness with periodic spikes, such as in 2006 when he woke up in the middle of the night screaming that he was possessed by the devil and slapped his wife, a psychiatrist testified, according to CTV. I formed the opinion that from a purely psychiatric perspective I felt that on the balance of probabilities he was not able to appreciate the nature and quality of his actions or their rightness or wrongness, Klassen said and tORONTO -- A man on trial for killing a Toronto police officer was psychotic at the time he rammed into the sergeant with a stolen snow plow and may be schizophrenic, court heard Thursday. There was also a very serious exacerbation in the months before Kachkar killed Sgt. Ryan Russell in January 2011, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Philip Klassen testified. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.