Jean Eric Gassy

Who is Jean Eric Gassy?

Jean Eric Gassy is a deregistered medical practitioner who was convicted in October 2004 of the murder on 14 October 2002 of Dr. Margaret Tobin, then the head of government mental health services in South Australia. Dr Tobin was shot four times as she was walking away from the lift that she had taken to the eighth floor of the office in which she worked. Jean Eric Gassy rented a vehicle from Bayswater Car Rental in Kings Cross from Jarrod Kluck, he then proceeded to the airport and removed the number plates before taking them to South Australia and using them on another vehicle, this was later proven when upon return of the vehicle to Brett Carneson of Bayswater Car Rental in Kings Cross, he had only traveled 116 kilometres in the car, the Director Arnold Kluck also gave evidence confirming Jean Eric Gassy as the renter of the vehicle.

Gassy was struck off in 1997 after being diagnosed with a delusional disorder and refusing to comply with conditions placed on his registration. Gassy's motive was that the person who initiated that deregistration process - by first raising his eligibility to be a psychiatrist — was Dr Tobin, his former boss. Gassy was later found to possess a "hit list" of doctors involved in his deregistration, as well as a HIV specialist who refused to treat him after the delusional former doctor became convinced he had contracted the virus.