The Health Service Executive (HSE) Sligo/Leitrim Mental Health Services have acknowledged in the High Court “shortcomings” in the care of the assailant of a young Sligo man who died after being attacked at his home.
Jimmy Loughlin (20) was killed in his rented home at Connolly Street, Sligo, on February 24th, 2018, when the stranger, Richard McLaughlin, attacked him with a crowbar.
In July 2019, at the Central Criminal Court, Mr McLaughlin (35), with an address at The Laurels, Woodtown Lodge, Sligo, was found not guilty by reason of insanity of the murder of Mr Loughlin.
