Schizophrenic man gets 10 years for stabbing doctor

A PARANOID schizo-phrenic who was jailed for stabbing a man to death on a Limerick street was yesterday jailed for 10 years at Limerick Circuit Court for a vicious knife attack on the psychiatrist who was treating him after his release.

Anthony McMahon, aged 32, of Raheen Square, Ballinacurra Weston, pleaded guilty to assault causing serious harm to Dr Ananth Pullela at St Anne’s day care centre in Limerick on January 17, 2008.

The court heard that Dr Pullela, a distinguished forensic psychiatrist, may never work again as a result of the trauma he suffered.