Prison had no record of dead man’s earlier suicide attempt

THE Irish Prison Service had no record of a previous suicide attempt by a prisoner who hanged himself, an inquest heard yesterday.

Andrew Spratt used a trouser’s cord to hang himself in Mountjoy Prisoner.

However, the prison service, Dublin Coroner’s Court was told, could find no documentation relating to a suicide attempt by Spratt in Wheatfield Prison, shortly before a transfer to Mountjoy.