THE consultant psychiatrist who suffered horrific wounds when a patient went on a rampage at a Limerick day hospital on Thursday was still critical but stable last night.

FOUR psychiatric nurses were told they would be killed with a butcher’s knife unless they got down on their knees and begged for mercy by two former patients.

Four psychiatric nurses were threatened with a butcher’s knife and forced to beg for mercy in a terrifying attack in Kildare, it emerged tonight.