In January 2013, Kevin McGeever was found dishevelled and emaciated on a country road. He told gardaí he had been kidnapped from his home in Galway and had been held captive in an underground container in complete darkness for eight months. But it was all an elaborate hoax dreamt up by McGeever – and it wasn’t the first time he had tried to pull the wool over people’s eyes.
A nurse who assaulted a female colleague at University Hospital Galway with a syringe filled with a strong sedative has been found guilty of professional misconduct.