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Tue 01 Jan 2007Judge orders transfer of mugger to hospitalA schizophrenic who mugged a woman of €20 as she was withdrawing cash from an ATM had spent three years on remand in custody because of an issue surrounding his fitness to plead to the charge.Noel Kane (36), Neilstown Park, Clondalkin was remanded in custody after his arrest on October 27th, 2003 by gardaí who stopped him on Dame Street, Dublin, following a report of the robbery on Grafton Street shortly before that.