Court reserves judgement in doctor-stabbing case

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of a psychiatric patient jailed for 10 years for repeatedly stabbing a doctor.

Anthony McMahon (aged 34), with a last address at Raheen Square, Ballinacurra Weston, stabbed forensic psychiatrist Dr Ananth Pullela (aged 58) eight times in the chest at St Anne’s Psychiatric Day Hospital in Limerick on January 17, 2008.