Dead man's family question his release from care

The family of a 45-year-old psychiatric patient, who took his life while out on an overnight release from a Dublin hospital, said he should never have been let out.

Ann Patton, a sister of Kevin Pringle, told the Dublin City Coroner’s Court that her brother was extremely agitated on the night of March 23, 2004, when he was out for one night from St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin.