{"id":532779,"date":"2026-07-09T10:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/532779\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:07:07","slug":"efforts-to-obtain-psychiatric-help-for-prisoner-are-no-further-along-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/532779\/","title":{"rendered":"Efforts to obtain psychiatric help for prisoner are &#8216;no further along&#8217; &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Attempts to obtain a psychiatric evaluation for a prisoner have still not made progress. For months, the man&#8217;s family and the court have expressed grave concerns for the 35-year-old man&#8217;s mental health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He has been in custody since December, charged with threats to kill or cause serious harm and production of an article intended to cause injury at a premises on Broad Street in Waterford city. He was also previously charged with assault causing harm against a nurse at University Hospital Waterford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">There has been serious difficulties in acquiring psychiatric supports for the man while he is in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This week, the man\u2019s solicitor, Kenneth Cunningham, said the matter is no further along, and the case cannot proceed further until he can take instruction from his client.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">However, he cannot do this until a psychiatric report investigates the man&#8217;s fitness to plead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The court was also informed that there is no capacity at the Central Mental Hospital, and so the man remains in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr Cunningham told his client that he hopes a psychiatric team will be available to meet him very shortly to prepare a report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n             Funded by the Court Reporting Scheme\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attempts to obtain a psychiatric evaluation for a prisoner have still not made progress. For months, the man&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":["post-532779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}