Doctor tells court man has 'low risk' of reoffending

A psychiatric expert has told the Central Criminal Court that a man who assaulted his wife poses an “extremely low risk” of re-offending, if he is not jailed.

Dr Darina Sloan, a consultant psychiatrist at St Otterans hospital in Waterford, said that 48-year-old Fintan Murphy has an ongoing psychiatric illness, and was severely depressed at the time of the incident.