Reports from the gleeful New York tabloids indicate that Tortorella's overbearing personality, his harsh treatment of players in public and private just ran its course, as it usually does with coaches like him.
Mr Lloyd-Jones said Hinton had been diagnosed with a personality disorder and posed a high risk to the public, but experts decided he should not be detained under the Mental Health Act.
She was forced to miss some engagements, but made her first public appearance after the spell in hospital at the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year event.
Public acquiescence in these aerial killings demonstrates the way in which political and moral judgments can be driven by perceptions of personality and politics.