Man who spat blood at gardaí sentenced to four years for violent hospital outburst

A Dublin man who chased a nurse, grabbed a patient’s drip and spat blood at gardaí during a violent hospital outburst has been given a four-year sentence.

Raymond Neeson (aged 34) was brought to the Mater Hospital in an aggressive and intoxicated state, chased after the staff nurse, verbally abused a security guard and took hold of another patient’s drip pole before he spat blood at two arresting gardaí and threatened to infect them with HIV.