Anti-Vaxxer arrested over death of Donegal COVID patient

Kermit.de.frog

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/man-arrested-in-relation-to-death-of-covid-patient-who-left-hospital-1.4796230

Anti-vaccination activist Antonio Mureddu has been arrested by gardaí in Co Donegal.

It is understood the arrest relates to an incident at Letterkenny University Hospital when a seriously ill Covid-19 patient was assisted in leaving the hospital on September 14th last.

The man, 68-year-old Joe McCarron, died a couple of days later in the hospital after he had been returned there by his family.

A video of the incident shows Mureddu telling doctors and security officers that he is helping Mr McCarron to leave the hospital.

Doctors are filmed pleading with Mr McCarron not to leave hospital advising him that he is very ill with Covid.

Mureddu appeared on Monday at Letterkenny District Court where he was facing road traffic charges.

However, directly after the brief appearance the 44 year old, an Italian national, was arrested by gardaí within the lobby of the court.

Having been approached by a number of both uniformed and plain-clothes gardaí, he was taken away for questioning at Letterkenny Garda station.

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Poor man.

What is wrong with these people

PowerToWait

I’d nearly bet he was citing maritime law with his traffic offences.

For Forks Sake

ancapailldorcha

Anti-vaxxers (as distinct from the vaccine hesitant) are scum. They're happy to spread their poison, knowing full well it will cost other people's lives. I hope he gets prison. He deserves it.

For Forks Sake

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118597252#Comment_118597252

Not quite, but he has form for acting the b0llocks in front of the judiciary

https://connachttribune.ie/anti-vaxxers-day-of-court-drama/

 

I wish the whole judiciary spent more time prosecuting actual crimes, instead of merely opinions.

MarkEadie

Is he related to the deceased? I'm curious about how this happened.

rosser44

Delighted!! Hopefully a nice long sentence too for this dirty little fascist scumbag.

Kermit.de.frog

https://youtu.be/KuXZNCBazWs

This is the guy, they are all the same

"I'm the master, you're the servant"

silver2020

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058231857/anti-vaxxer-arrested-over-death-of-donegal-covid-patient

Exactly, the poor man is dead due to this utterly stupid fool.

Hopefully this eejit gets a few years behind bars.

But he'll probably play the mental health card - in reality he is just phenomenally stupid.

paul71

Hopefully a fully served 7 year sentence for wreckless endangerment followed by deportation back to Italy.

Peregrinus

The newspaper report is careful to say that Mureddu's arrest "relates to an incident at Letterkenny University Hospital" when McCarron was "assisted in leaving".

It doesn't say that the incident was the provision of assistance to leave. It could have been something that happened at the same time - a trespass offence, an offence involving abuse of the staff, something of that kind. Or, of course, it could be the assistance to leave. We'll have to wait and see what charge, if any, is brought.

If the charge is to be in relation to the assistance to leave, there has been speculation that the charge will be endangerment. But I see a problem here. The offence involves engaging in "conduct which creates a substantial risk of death or serious harm to another". But McCarron was already at substantial risk of death; his doctor can be heard telling him exactly this in the video. Murredu's conduct may have intensified McCarron's risk of dying of Covid, but it doesn't seem to me that it created that risk. I think a prosecution for endangerment may fail.

Ashbourne hoop

Its about time these morons realised there is consequences for their actions.

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118598615#Comment_118598615

I disagree. taking him out of the hospital creates a new risk of death or serious injury due a lack of a required medical treatment. the risk of dying due to a lack of medical treatment did not exist while he was in the hospital.

gmisk

Late last year Mureddu appeared in court on multiple driving offence, without a mask but wearing a “floor length purple cloak”. He then attempted Freeman of the Land type nonsense to get off the charges.

Sounds about right....absolute looper...

Fandymo

Whilst the man seems like an absolute looper, none of the above fcuked up revenge fantasies are going to happen. If the patient, Mr McCarron, was of sound mind, which it seems from the videos where he states he wants to leave the hospital, then there is absolutely nothing that Mureddu can be charged with. The hospital has no right to detain anyone, unless they are not of sound mind, and need to be detained for their own safety. This does not seem to be the case here.

Posturing to try to stop it from happening again perhaps? Or as someone said above maybe a minor trespass charge.

MacDanger

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118597842#Comment_118597842

Dunno how the Gardai manage to keep their temper dealing with bell ends like this

paul71

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118601076#Comment_118601076

A bell end like this hounded a member of the force into suicide not so long ago by means of concerted social media harassment that lasted more than a year.

Interestingly the "lady" responsible for that had much the same views as this despicable creature.

Itssoeasy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118597293#Comment_118597293

Well it’s not his opinions he’s been questioned over now is it ? It’s over his actions in convincing a very ill man to leave hospital and then he died days later.

Boggles

Released without charge.

Kicked up to the DPP to make the decision.

Will be very interesting to see what happens.

Peregrinus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118598664#Comment_118598664

Well, we'll see. But, bear in mind that, as a penal provision, this will be restrictively interpreted by the courts. If the Oireachtas wants to criminalise conduct they have to do so in the clearest terms, and any ambiguity will resolved in the defendant's favour.

SamStonesArm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118597842#Comment_118597842

Oh jaysus that clown would give ya ire.

[Deleted User]

I would suspect if you made that awful "I'm the master. You're the servant"' comment to the Carabinieri (Italian gendarmerie police force) you would be getting a lot more than a polite response and being let drive off. I also doubt it's something many people would dare try!

Kermit.de.frog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118603746#Comment_118603746

Funny thing is in the video he states he is going to work.

But according this IT report from November he is "unemployed and in receipt of social welfare".

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/anti-vaccination-campaigner-fined-for-breaching-covid-19-restrictions-1.4739206?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime-and-law%2Fcourts%2Fdistrict-court%2Fanti-vaccination-campaigner-fined-for-breaching-covid-19-restrictions-1.4739206

Fandymo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118601203#Comment_118601203

The ill man made the decision to leave the hospital.

seamus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118604435#Comment_118604435

Sure, but consent isn't always that simple. People can be coerced or deceived into making decisions. The fact that they made decision doesn't mean the other person is necessarily scott free.

Any road, it's pretty clear that while the dead man was a complete simpleton, he was also deeply involved in this freeman nonsense over the last several years, so it's unlikely the other fruit loop came into the hospital and randomly convinced him to leave. He was most likely intending on leaving but just wanted some support.

Fandymo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118604489#Comment_118604489

I can't see any coercion or deception in the videos. As you say the patient wanted to leave the hospital, the defendant seems to have been there at the invite of the patient who wanted to leave, as was his right.

Annasopra

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118598798#Comment_118598798

He's friendly with Dolores Cahill and previously with Gemma O'Doherty though Gemma now claims he is a state agent.

Annasopra

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118604489#Comment_118604489

And Murredu also claimed in the video Dolores Cahill was involved

https://www.irishcentral.com/news/dolores-cahill-joe-mccarron

BattleCorp1

Just to play Devil's Advocate...............Supposing a taxi driver and not Mureddu had collected Joe McCarron from hospital, I wonder would the taxi driver have been arrested?

I notice Mureddu hasn't been charged with anything in relation to this. If Joe McCarron was of sound mind, then I can't see any crime being committed.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118600998#Comment_118600998

You can detain somebody with multidrug resistant TB against their will under public health legislation.