Central Mental Hospital director summoned to Cork court

The request was made because of the failure to find a place at the facility for a man found to be mentally unfit to plead to charges of assaulting two officers at Cork Prison.

Judge Ó Donnabháin directed the attendance of the CMH clinical director and added: “He should attend in person. There is no point in doing this by video.” File photo of the Central Mental Hospital.

The clinical director of the Central Mental Hospital was directed to attend court in Cork because of the failure to find a place at the facility for a man found to be mentally unfit to plead to charges of assaulting two officers at Cork Prison.

50-year-old William O’Connor of St. John’s Terrace, World’s End, Kinsale, County Cork, appeared by video link from prison at Cork Circuit Criminal Court flanked by two officers who wore protective clothing as the accused had his hands cuffed in front of him.