A man who hacked into a woman's e-mail to find her Irish address and who harassed her after she fled to Ireland, is refusing to take his psychiatric medication in custody, a court has been told.
Defence counsel for Lukasz Juszcak told the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court yesterday that his client feared that if he took his medication, he would suffer a "stigma" in the eyes of the other prisoners in Cloverhill.
Juszcak (24), from Poznan, Poland, appeared yesterday before Judge Patricia Ryan, who remanded him in custody for sentencing later.
He has pleaded guilty to harassing a woman, also from Poland, at the Steelworks apartments in Foley Street, Dublin, from October 19th to November 30th, 2006; to causing criminal damage there on November 24th, 2006, and to threatening to kill the woman's boyfriend, on November 27th, 2006.
Juszcak was discharged from the Central Mental Hospital just two weeks after Judge Ryan remanded him there last October after being told by psychiatrist Dr Conor O'Neill that he was schizophrenic and required ongoing treatment. Dr O'Neill had recommended that it would benefit Juszcak more to be on remand in a Polish psychiatric hospital where his family and friends would be available to him.
When he reappeared before her yesterday, Judge Ryan was told Juszcak had not been taking his medication since his discharge from Dundrum. Judge Ryan said she wanted to know why Juszcak was discharged just two weeks after Dr O'Neill indicated that he required ongoing treatment there.