Mentally ill have killed for want of treatment, says lawyer

LETHAL assaults are occurring in Limerick because there is no secure psychiatric unit in the city for violent, mentally ill people, according to the president of the Limerick Law Society.

Mentally ill have killed for want of treatment, says lawyer

Ted McCarthy, who is a well known criminal defence lawyer, said there is an urgent need for a secure psychiatric unit in Limerick.

Clients of his, he said, have committed serious violent crime when they should not have been on the streets in the first place.

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