An Almanac of Infamy

Dr. Donald Grant , a former government psychiatrist turned true crime writer, has been referred to the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission by Queensland Health. The hospital has concerns about possible patient confidentiality breaches in Grant's newly published book Killer Instinct . In the book, Grant recounts the murderers he examined in a professional capacity. One such murderer was Rhys Austin. In 2010, Austin throttled his girlfriend Bianca Girven and left her for dead in a van. She died of her injuries the next day in the hospital. Austin was sent to a psychiatric hospital after being found by the courts to be of unsound mind and that's where he came in contact with Dr. Grant. He revealed to Grant several intimate details of Girven's last moments, including her last words. These details ended up in Grant's book and he was recently confronted by Bianca Girven's mother Sonia Anderson at a book reading. She expressed her outrage over the fact that she neve...