Stabbing accused sent to mental hospital

A 33-year-old woman accused of assault and robbery after a woman was stabbed in the neck during a mugging in Dublin has been transferred to the Central Mental Hospital.

Laura Kenna, who is homeless, made no application for bail when she first appeared before Judge Anthony Halpin at Dublin District Court on January 6.

She is charged with assault causing harm to the woman, a 35-year-old civil servant, and robbing her of her handbag and her phone, at Lower Drumcondra Rd, on the evening of January 3.