Man who stabbed himself in throat may face charges

GARDAÍ are examining if a man who knifed himself in the throat during a standoff with gardaí has committed a criminal offence.

The matter will ultimately be one for the Director of Public Prosecutions who will also weigh up whether the man is fit, from a mental point of view, to stand trial.

The man, aged in his 30s, from Ferrybank, Waterford city, suffered serious injuries when he stabbed himself in the throat with a knife at the climax of a six-hour stand-off with gardaí in Swords, north Dublin.