A former psychiatric nurse who received more than £100,000 in compensation four years ago for head injuries sustained in a crash, was yesterday jailed for four months at the Magistrate’s Court in Derry for assaulting a doctor, a nurse and a police officer at Altnagelvin Hospital’s AE department on February 12th.
Defence solicitor Séamus Quigley said Paddy McCrossan (36), who has a lengthy criminal record, was now a homeless street drinker and had spent most of his compensation money on alcohol. “He has developed epilepsy since the accident. . . and on the night in question . . . he’d suffered an epileptic fit in the city centre. He has now reached rock bottom,” he said.