His bed linen in the high dependency unit of Mountjoy Prison, was appallingly filthy and had not been changed in months, the court heard.
A court-appointed medical visitor had reported that the man had "absolutely filthy" feet and hugely overgrown and curled toe nails - a rare nail disease, known as ram's horn which has not been seen here in decades. The doctor was told that wardens had a policy not to invade a prisoner's personal space but he considered that policy should not be applied to vulnerable adults.
The court heard the man's solicitor, Danica Kinane, of M.E. Hanahoe solicitors had written to the High Court as a last resort to have the man made a ward of court. The man was arrested in November last year and charged with assaulting two security guards who approached him when sheltering in the women's toilets of a Dublin Shopping centre. The court heard he defecated in a garda cell, covered himself with excrement and was charged the following day and remanded by the district court to Mountjoy's High Dependency Unit.
She said no one, including the district court judges, believed it was in his or the public's interest to release him back onto the street.He said it was so bad that Ms Kinane's very experienced firm had sought wardship for the first time in its history.
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