Psychiatric nurse feared for his life

A PSYCHIATRIC nurse was savagely attacked by a mental hospital patient whose death is now being probed, an inquest heard yesterday.

Witness Tony Cormican said: “I feared for my life. Only for the intervention of my colleague, John Thompson, I might not be here today.”

The spontaneous attack by the deceased man — Gary Connell — was the worst violence Mr Cormican had suffered in 28 years’ at Dublin’s Central Mental Hospital (CMH).