Man who died in prison was under observation

A YOUNG man who died from drug-related pneumonia while he was an inmate at a Dublin prison was under special observation due to risk of overdose at the time of his death, an inquest heard yesterday.

Paul Kelly, 22, of 62 Greenfort Gardens, Clondalkin, was discovered unconscious in his cell at Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison on the morning of February 9, 2006, at about 9.20am.

The father of two was rushed to the Mater Hospital where he was pronounced dead.