AGREEMENT has been reached as to how a man with a mental age of 12 years who was convicted of sexual assault should be accommodated before his case is heard in the High Court, the court was told yesterday.
The man had brought an application for direction that the South Eastern Health Board should take responsibility for him.
He claimed that when he was brought before the Circuit Criminal Court, the health board had given an undertaking to accept responsibility for him to avoid him getting a custodial sentence.
Yesterday Mr Justice Kelly was told by Mr James O'Reilly, for the health board, that agreement as to how the man should be accommodated before the hearing had been reached by the parties without prejudice to them.
The man is to stay in a psychiatric hospital and the health board will be responsible for his treatment but not his behaviour. He is to comply with any treatment directed by the chief psychiatrist.