"I'd never really thought about these things, Mullen tells the Guardian. They had never been on my radar. The Bristol-born Mullen had always dabbled in forensic work, but the events at Aramoana piqued his curiosity. He would soon pivot to become a full-time forensic psychiatrist, specialising in some of the gravest acts known to society, from stalking and child sexual abuse to mass killings."
"Perhaps the most striking encounter came just a few years after Aramoana, when in April 1996 news broke of an even deadlier attack in Port Arthur, Tasmania. By then Mullen was in Australia, working as professor of forensic psychiatry at Monash University. He received a call summoning him to Royal Hobart hospital where this latest perpetrator whose name Mullen refuses to use had been taken alive hours earlier after shooting 55 people, killing 35."
Dr Paul E Mullen lived near Dunedin, New Zealand when he encountered the aftermath of the Aramoana shooting in November 1990. A hospital colleague alerted him that a shooter had opened fire nearby; one of Mullen's long-term patients lived next door to the perpetrator, and many people he knew were harmed. The Aramoana events prompted Mullen to shift from occasional forensic work to a full-time career in forensic psychiatry. He specialized in severe offending including stalking, child sexual abuse, and mass killings. While at Monash University he was summoned to Royal Hobart Hospital after the Port Arthur massacre, where the shooter had killed 35 people.
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