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Finnigan, the retired detective, attended the virtual hearing and perceived no difference in the “pathological lying sociopath” he began studying in 1979.

Here, food is rarely appetizing, but it is always expressive, a kind of edible theater for the gang’s obsessions, failures and pathological self-regard.

He said he regarded Martinez as a “pathological liar,” and one of the most manipulative people he’d met in his long career.

She was treated with fluids and antibiotics but the consultant said "nothing we were providing would stop the ongoing pathological progress of that viral infection".

But he added that Ms Campanella never went to the police as she did not feel that Mr Argentino's attentions were particularly "threatening or pathological".