We believe there is a real shortage of treatment programs for people with mental health illness. To some degree, it is reflective of a very serious housing shortage problem in Lee County. For some of our people, homelessness has been an issue.

Lots of mental health facilities won't take people with substance abuse problems. Or places for substance abuse treatment can't help with mental issues.

We didn't know that he had bi-polar but it's true of anyone with mental health issues that when they're being managed, they do not talk about it. So it caught all of us by surprise. But when we look back on it, his behavior did change. It became erratic.

Obviously a plea bargain isn't an option, as long as there's nothing on the table to address the mental health issues that are so apparent with Andrea. Given that, the only other option is to go to trial. I don't believe there will be any meaningful negotiations in this matter short of going before a jury.

[We use] the arts to help people with mental health issues back into the mainstream and having a patron of the stature of Roger Waters will help us immensely. Roger was born and brought up in Cambridge and, through his work and life with Syd Barrett in the early days of Pink Floyd, has a good understanding of the enormous difficulties that mental illness can cause.

I think the history is such that we underestimate the mental health problems, ... As people see what they consider sort of a hopeless situation - bodies floating on the water, the scene like they saw in the Superdome - people are not ready for that. They are not prepared to deal with it.