Patient at psychiatric unit threatened to stab nurse

A voluntary patient at a psychiatric unit who was coming off drugs threatened to stab a nurse who challenged him for allegedly trying to supply drugs to another patient.

Sergeant Katrine Tansley gave evidence of the incident as Kenneth Duggan, formerly of Ballinderry Park, Mayfield, Cork, was jailed for three years at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

Duggan pleaded guilty to threatening to kill or cause serious injury to John Boland on November 14, 2015 at the Mercy University Hospital.