Gareth Sheeran, of Carriglea View in Firhouse, Dublin, was found not guilty by reason of insanity last week of murdering his father.
A 32-YEAR-OLD man who was suffering from schizophrenia when he killed his father with a World War II bayonet on Father’s Day has been committed to the Central Mental Hospital.
Mr Justice Hunt ordered the committal and continued treatment of Mr Sheeran at the Central Mental Hospital in Portrane.The judge said he would also like to “express again my sympathies for everyone concerned, to the Sheeran family who have a terrible burden to bear”. The detective said that the defendant told gardaí that he stabbed his father with a “WWII bayonet-type of thing”.
She said it sounded like “someone fell out of the attic”, and she said she then heard “a wail of anguish”. He said expert evidence had been heard from two very experienced psychiatrists who both agreed Mr Sheeran was suffering from a mental disorder at the time of the killing and that he fulfilled the criteria that entitled him to the special verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.Dr Patrick McLaughlin, a consultant forensic psychiatrist based in the Central Mental Hospital, previously told the court that Mr Sheeran suffers from a major mental illness, namely schizophrenia.
Dr McLaughlin said it was very difficult to follow the narrative being put forward by Mr Sheeran, but it appeared that the defendant believed he received information about his father, with someone saying to him: “Kill your father, we’ll help you.” He confirmed that Mr Sheeran satisfied all three possible requirements for a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.
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