[NYTr] Shrink Testifies Psychotic Donor's Legacy to Tories was "Rational"

[nytr at olm.blythe-systems.com]

[He left his money so the Tories could fight "Satanic monsters and dark
forces" and was known to be delusional... but one shrink claims his
will was "rational." Okaaay... - Very amusing. -NY Transfer]

The Guardian - Jul 24, 2007
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,,2133325,00.html

Insane donor 'rational to give to Tories'

By David Hencke
Westminster correspondent

A consultant psychiatrist yesterday argued that a "delusionary insane"
Tory donor had been "rational and logical" to leave millions of pounds
to the Conservatives to fight "satanic monsters" and "dark forces"
around the world.

Robert Howard, an expert in disputed wills by mentally ill people, was
giving evidence at the high court on behalf of the Conservative party
in a battle between Zoran Kostic, son of a multimillionaire businessman
who disinherited him, and the Tories over an estate worth #10m.

Both sides accept that Branislav Kostic, Zoran Kostic's father, had been
"delusionary insane" since 1985 when he divorced, broke off relations
with his son and sister and claimed there was an international
conspiracy of more than 100 people masterminded by sexually perverted
pharmaceutical company executives to destroy "freedom, democracy and
human purity".

The Conservatives contend that his decision to leave them his entire
estate in 1989 was rational and based on his love of Britain and
admiration for Mrs Thatcher. The son contends that he was of "unsound
mind" when he wrote the last will disinheriting the son from the family
fortune.

Dr Howard argued that Mr Kostic's madness, unlike schizophrenia, did
not " wax or wane" and after 1985 he would have had the capacity to
write a will. Under cross-examination by Clare Montgomery QC, for Zoran
Kostic, he accepted that one interpretation could be that his father's
correspondence offering money to the Tories came from his delusions
about "satanic monsters" rather than support for Tory values and
philosophy.

The case continues.