Judge: Man’s brains fried from far too much weed

A man who was rambling and bleeding in front of cars and was then pepper sprayed three times by gardaí as he resisted arrest, later tried to grab a pair of scissors while refusing medical treatment in hospital.

On a separate occasion David Blackwell, a 52-year-old who lives in a caravan at Cooranig, Dunmanway in West Cork, was found stealing an axe from the garage of a private house. On being arrested afterwards, he told gardaí he remembered finding himself in the garage “looking for a game of darts” in what he described as a “flashback situation”.

A judge yesterday said of Mr Blackwell: “He has smoked far too much weed and he has fried his brains, or cooked them to a stage where it is on the ‘well done’ side.”