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A DEFENDANT who has been in custody for more than four months pleaded with a judge not to send him to Dundrum mental institution in Dublin.
David Mulcaire, 31 St Senan’s Road, Ennis, told the Ennis District
court that he would “never be able to get on outside again if I went there. I’d never be served in a shop or a pub. No one would want anything to do with me. It would ruin my name.” Judge Joseph Mangan had suggest- ed sending Mulcaire to Dundrum af- ter reading an assessment of him. Previously the court had heard that
Mulcaire, who is facing charges of theft, suffered a serious brain trauma in 1999, when he was hit in the head with a concrete block.
Two psychiatrists gave conflicting evidence on that occasion on whether or not the accused was fit to plead.
He has been in custody since his ar- rest more than four months ago.
‘Surely the whole thrust of what we are trying to do here is to take this man out of the criminal justice sys- tem and get him into the psychiatric system?” Judge Mangan said.
He remanded Mulcaire to Clover- hill prison for two weeks to be as- sessed by a psychiatrist from Dun- drum mental institution.