A prison officer who claims he witnessed a colleague breaking a prisoner's jaw said his supervising officer tried to influence him into giving a misleading statement to the governor.

The trial is continuing today of a prison officer accused of breaking a prisoner's jaw.

A jury has heard that a prisoner whose jaw was allegedly broken by a prison officer feared he was going to die after he was left naked, covered in blood in a padded cell for 30 minutes.

A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been told that a remand prisoner's jaw was broken on both sides by a prison officer who kicked him in the face some time after a riot had ended.