One of six patients released last year from Central Mental Hospital forced to return

Patients are referred to the psychiatric facilities at the Central Mental Hospital because they are deemed unfit to stand trial or found not guilty of offences by reason of insanity. File picture: Frank Miller

Six patients were conditionally discharged from the Central Mental Hospital, having previously been found not guilty of crimes by reason of insanity or deemed unfit to stand trial.

One of those who were released from the facility was subsequently “recalled” following a material breach of their conditional discharge order, according to the latest annual report of the Mental Health (Criminal Law) Review Board.