Alan Ellis sentenced for assaulting psychiatrist with weapon

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Alan Ellis was sentenced to three years, with the final year suspended, for assault causing harm at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 27 March 2017.

The offence happened at Mountjoy Prison on 23 October 2014, when Ellis punctured psychiatrist Dr Ronan Mullaney’s neck with a sharpened paint roller. Ellis had pleaded guilty to the charge.

The sentence is concurrent with Ellis’s existing prison term. The judge accepted that Ellis was suffering from paranoid delusions and said he needed serious treatment while in custody.