Alleged burglar to be released by judge unless State provides secure mental health care

A judge has said he will have little option but to release a man likely to be found not guilty by reason of insanity unless state services can provide the acute in-patient mental health care he needs.

Judge James McNulty said “the buck stops with me” after hearing of the strenuous efforts made by the man’s solicitor to secure him the correct mental health intervention within the prison system and within the state’s mental health system, all to no avail.