Paranoid schizophrenic who attacked tourists sent to Central Mental Hospital

A paranoid schizophrenic Australian who attacked two Welsh tourists in Dublin will spend 18 months in the Central Mental Hospital as part of a two-and-a-half-year sentence.

Michael Frith, aged 34, from South Australia, had told gardaí after his arrest that leading Republican activist, Mr Martin McGuinness, was his senior counsel and Mr Jim Davis, creator of the world-renowned ‘Garfield’ cartoon, was his solicitor.