Judge blames doctors for delay in sentencing burglars

Doctors at the Central Mental Hospital were criticised by a circuit court judge in Cork yesterday who said that a man could not be sentenced because of their failure to do a psychiatric report on the accused.

“Doctors at the Central Mental Hospital should realise they are there to facilitate courts rather than the courts being there to facilitate doctors,” Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said yesterday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

Seven houses were burgled within about a mile of UCC and one man, whose elderly parents’ home was ransacked, drove after a suspicious looking car in the area which took off at high speed until gardaí arrived to find thousands of euro in cash and jewellery stashed in the car.