A man who posed as a radio disc jockey to contact teenage girls whom he then harassed with obscene phone calls has had his sentence adjourned by Judge Patrick McCartan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court so that a neurologicial assessment can be carried out.
James Staunton (38), single, of Curlew Road, Drimnagh pleaded guilty to 15 charges relating to obscene phone calls made between January 1997 and November 1998.
Mr Blaise O'Carroll, SC, defending said Staunton suffered "frontal lobe dysfunction" as a result of an accident which had caused damage to the right hemisphere of the brain, which controls sexual impulses.