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LAST UPDATE
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A JUDGE HAS made an order for a 16-year-old boy charged with the murder of a man in Co Tyrone, and the attempted murder of his wife and daughter, to undergo a mental health assessment.<\/p>\n
The teenager, who cannot be named due to his age, appeared before Omagh Court this morning and a PSNI officer told the court that she could connect him to the charges.<\/p>\n
The defendant\u2019s solicitor meanwhile said that he had no issues in relation to this connection.<\/p>\n
At around 10.55am on Saturday, police received a report from a member of the public of an ongoing disturbance at a house in the Lisnahull Road area of Dungannon, Co Tyrone.<\/p>\n
PSNI officers arrived a short time later and discovered the body of a man aged 61.<\/p>\n
Officers also discovered his 48-year-old wife, who had sustained non-life threatening injuries, as well as their severely injured eight-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n
The young girl had been in a critical condition in hospital, but is now in a stable condition.<\/p>\n
The PSNI yesterday said that the \u201cquick-thinking actions\u201d of officers \u201cgave the young girl a fighting chance of survival\u201d.<\/p>\n
The 16-year-old defendant confirmed to the court that he understood the charges against him.<\/p>\n
No application for bail was made.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the defendant\u2019s solicitor, Jarlath Faloon, told the court that the defendant made admissions in relation to the alleged offences during police interviews over the weekend.<\/p>\n
He said it is \u201cregrettable\u201d that prior to this, the defendant \u201chadn\u2019t underwent any formal psychiatric assessment\u201d.<\/p>\n
Faloon told the court that there were \u201cclear concerns\u201d in relation to the defendant\u2019s mental health but that there was \u201climited psychiatric assessment during the interview process\u201d.<\/p>\n
While Faloon said the teenager was examined by a mental health nurse and a forensic medical officer, he added that this was \u201ccertainly not at a psychiatric level\u201d.<\/p>\n
He asked that an \u201cimmediate psychiatric assessment be carried out on the defendant\u201d.<\/p>\n
The judge said he would make an \u201corder for the authorities to conduct a mental health assessment\u201d.<\/p>\n
Faloon meanwhile added that his office will also undertake a mental health assessment and that this will be a \u201ctwo-tiered approach\u201d.<\/p>\n
The defendant was remanded in custody and will next appear before Dungannon Youth Court via video-link on 15 September.<\/p>\n
An application for legal aid was granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAST UPDATE | 16 hrs ago A JUDGE HAS made an order for a 16-year-old boy charged with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[70253,9,10,19610,1681,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,3800,5,954,30,7,8,32,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-667944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-attempted-murder","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-charged","tag-dungannon","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-northern-ireland","tag-psni","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-tyrone","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117199063150136745","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}