ROGERS v THE UNITED KINGDOM - 42425/19 (Judgment : (Art. 6) Right to a fair trial - (Art. 13) Right to an effective remedy - (Art. 35) Admissibility criteria : Second Section)

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 15 September 2020 as a Committee composed of:

��������� Ale� Pejchal, President, ��������� Pauliine Koskelo, ��������� Tim Eicke, judges, and Renata Degener, Deputy Section Registrar,

1.  The applicant, Mr Nicolas James Rogers, is a British national who was born in 1991 and is currently detained in HM Prison Shotts, Lanarkshire. He was represented before the Court by Ms R. Cameron of John Pryde & Co Solicitors, Edinburgh.

The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.

2.  In the early hours of 6 August 2017 the applicant arrived at a house party. In the course of the morning, after most of the guests had left, he stabbed a young woman in the chest, killing her. He had a history of mental health issues and was taking prescription drugs to address them at the time of the incident.