Psychiatric report ordered over road-rage allegation
A psychiatric report has been ordered for a North Canterbury businessman charged over an alleged road-rage incident involving an attack with a car.
The 51-year-old will spend two weeks in secure custody at Hillmorton Hospital while the report is prepared under the Criminal Procedures (Mentally Impaired Persons) Act.
The report has been ordered under a section of the Act which relates to the sanity of people being prosecuted.
The man was interviewed by a forensic psychiatric nurse while he waited in custody at the Christchurch Court House this morning, and then the court was told of the report recommendation in a letter from a doctor.
Judge Raoul Neave remanded the man in custody at the hospital for the report, without plea, to next appear in court on April 9.
He granted the request of duty lawyer Jeff McCall for the man to be granted interim name suppression, which he said would have to be fully argued at the next appearance when the psychiatric report may be available.
Mr McCall said the man disagreed with the recommendation for the remand at Hillmorton and said he would rather be bailed at home.
The man is charged injuring a man with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and wilful illtreatment of a dog.
Police said a man needed hospital treatment after being run-down by a driver he signalled to, about his speed as he passed. They said the four-wheel drive vehicle was turned and repeatedly driven at the victim, who was out walking with his wife and children.
The family’s 10-month old puppy was hit by the vehicle as it fled the scene. The man was charged with wilfully illtreating the dog “by injuring it, causing it pain to the extent that it was necessary to destroy the animal to end its suffering”.
The charges relate to an incident on Monday that police say took place in Downs Road, near the Eyre River, Eyreton.
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