Judge orders defendant be admitted to psychiatric unit

A judge has ordered a man facing criminal charges to be admitted into a psychiatric unit and to be placed on a waiting list for treatment at the Central Mental Hospital after his solicitor admitted he had struggled to get him the treatment he needs while in custody.

Tansanqa Radise had been in custody since he was first arrested in early February in Belgooly, Co Cork, for an alleged burglary and trespass offence.