A 22-year-old man is receiving the vital mental health treatment he requires while in prison – in contrast to the HSE’s psychiatric service which refused to treat him
That’s what his solicitor John Mitchell told Galway District Court this week, as he asked Judge Mary Fahy to activate two suspended prison sentences totalling seven months which she imposed on his client earlier this year for assaulting two nurses in the Psychiatric Unit in Galway in 2020.
Mr Mitchell said keeping the young man incarcerated was the only way of ensuring he would continue to receive the vital mental health support and treatment he needed.
