The family of a 45-year-old psychiatric patient, who took his life while out on an overnight release from a Dublin hospital, said he should never have been let out.

A 38-year-old man accused of murdering his mother was found guilty but insane at the Central Criminal Court today.

A 38-year-old man on trial for murdering his mother was suffering from chronic paranoid schizophrenia at the time of the killing, the Central Criminal Court heard today.