Delays in supplying important documentation "prolonged" the Commission of Investigation into the death of prisoner Gary Douch — and many documents were "incomplete, piecemeal and sometimes illegible".

TO the damning prison reports straining the shelves at Prison Service HQ, comes another four-volume dossier. Totalling almost 800 pages, the reports of the Commission of Investigation into the death of Gary Douch make for grim reading.

The violent death of a prisoner in Mountjoy Prison followed a litany of failures within the Irish prison system in the way the victim and his "vulnerable" killer were treated.