Garda (40) who harassed colleague was suffering from early-onset dementia, psychiatrists say

A garda from Bundoran, County Donegal, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to two counts of harassment against a married female sergeant committed between February 2012 and February 2013. Two forensic psychiatrists told the jury that the accused was suffering from frontotemporal dementia, an early-onset condition characterised by symptoms including erotomania, loss of empathy…