Gearoid Coughlan found fit to plead to alcohol theft charge

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Gearoid Coughlan was found fit to plead to alcohol theft at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, with the decision reported on 26 October 2022.

Judge Helen Boyle directed that a second counsel be assigned for the theft charge after a defence application, citing the complicated history of mental illness.

Coughlan had previously been found unfit to plead to the theft charge after psychiatric evidence was presented. He had also been found unfit to enter a plea to attempted murder of his mother and was held at the Central Mental Hospital.

The report said Coughlan was due to appear in person on 10 November 2022.

This report covers an earlier stage of the case. Later developments are not reported here.