A patient is in custody at an eastern Sydney hospital after allegedly assaulting several people, including three nurses. Police said the 51-year-old man seriously injured a nurse’s leg at Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick about 8:30pm on Saturday night, before assaulting two other nurses and a security guard. It is alleged he then attacked a 26-year-old woman with a garbage bin as she was trying to protect a nearby patient. Officers from Kings Cross Police Area Command had already been at the hospital for an unrelated matter when they were alerted to the incident. Police said the incident had occurred in the emergency department and was mental health related.

well that’s all right then