Mother hopes son will get residential treatment

A man with Asperger’s syndrome was remanded in continuing custody yesterday in a case where he was accused of knocking his mother on the floor of a shop and kicking her in the head.

The injured party in the case said yesterday that she wanted to withdraw her complaint in the hope that the district court judge would direct that her son would be put into residential medical treatment.

Judge Olann Kelleher said if the case was withdrawn he could not direct that. The judge said if she withdrew her complaint that would be the end of the case.