Psychiatric nurse sentenced over Galway syringe assault
A 48-year-old psychiatric nurse has been sentenced to twelve months in prison for assaulting another nurse with a syringe filled with sedating, anti-psychotic medication. Kofi Kankam - with an address at 15 The Clarin, Athenry, Co Galway - denied a charge of assaulting Emer Hyland, causing her harm, at the Psychiatric Unit at University Hospital [...]