A mentally ill man has been sentenced to life in prison at the Central Criminal Court for the manslaughter of his Mountjoy prison cellmate.

A Mountjoy prisoner accused of murdering his cellmate told detectives he killed him with “three digs, three kicks and a stamping” before rubbing excrement in his face.

A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court for the trial of a man accused of murdering a fellow inmate in Mountjoy Prison two years ago.