Teacher’s husband sues hospital over ‘suicide’

THE husband of a teacher who allegedly killed herself after leaving a psychiatric hospital while undergoing treatment, yesterday started a High Court action for damages.

Teacher’s husband sues hospital over ‘suicide’

The action by Joseph Madigan a stock controller of Bridge Street, Callan, Co Kilkenny against St Patrick’s Psychiatric Hospital in Dublin alleges negligence.

The claim alleges that 37-year-old Catherine Madigan was admitted to the hospital on February 5, 1998 for treatment for a severe mental illness.

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