Bed now available at CMH for mother who suffocated her daughter

A bed has today become available at the Central Mental Hospital for a mother who was found to have been insane when she smothered her autistic child and who could not be committed to the facility earlier this week as it was full.

The Central Criminal Court heard yesterday that the woman could not be committed to the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) because the facility had reached "full capacity in its quota of female patients".