Roxberry admitted smashing the capital's shopfronts

Andrew Roxberry is being assessed and treated in a secure unit after admitting 23 charges of criminal damage when CCTV cameras caught him smashing 43 shop windows in Cardiff city centre.

But his bed at the unit was only found when the judge hearing his case ordered one to be made available.

The mental health charity, Sane, said Roxberry, of Cardiff, has been "neglected" by the system.

Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of Sane, said: "We welcome the fact that, after almost six months, Mr Roxberry has been found a psychiatric bed and will be able to receive the treatment he so obviously needs.

"But it is disgraceful that it took an order by a judge for a bed to be found.

"Our mental health system is starved of beds, trained staff and consistent community support.

Roxberry is undergoing psychiatric tests

"The Government must act to ensure that pledged funds surface, to prevent others like Mr Roxberry being similarly neglected."

Roxberry, 30, caused damage estimated at up to �75,000 to shops and business premises in Queen Street - Cardiff's main shopping area - in February.

Wearing just a pair of black underpants, he attacked shop windows with a workman's shovel.

He had been in custody since being arrested and his case was adjourned several times after no hospital bed could be found for him to undergo tests.

No bed available

But at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday, Judge Roderick Denyer QC said one doctor considered that Roxberry may be suffering from schizophrenia of a catatonic type.

The judge made an order under the Mental Health Act 1983, requesting that Roxberry be transferred to Whitchurch Hospital in Cardiff for 28 days.

Last week the court heard that Roxberry needed to be admitted to a hospital because of his mental state but there was no bed available for him in south Wales.

Peter Davies, defending, said that Roxberry had already spent 176 days in custody and that he needed medical assistance.