‘Psychiatric hospital failed my dead son’

EXACTLY two months after discharging himself from a psychiatric hospital, a 26-year-old man who claimed he was the Archangel Gabriel stabbed a Garda sergeant before thrusting two knives into his own chest, killing himself almost instantly.

Amid emotional scenes yesterday, an inquest recorded a verdict of self-inflicted death in the case of Trevor Clancy, from Pike Road, Fermoy, Co Cork, who took his life on New Year’s Eve 2006.

His father Eamonn said he felt his son should not have been discharged from St Stephen’s Hospital, Glanmire, following 23 days of treatment. “I think they failed him,” said Mr Clancy.