Prisoner in identity blunder back in jail

PRISON officers at Dublin’s Mountjoy jail are facing disciplinary charges after a blunder saw a convicted robber wrongly released from prison.

Mark Kenny, who was three months into a six-year sentence for robbery, was freed in June instead of another prisoner with the same name.

But on Saturday night gardaí swooped on a house in the Ballyfermot area of Dublin after receiving a tip-off 35-year-old Kenny was inside the home. Following what gardaí described as a small altercation, officers restrained the criminal and brought him back to Mountjoy to serve the rest of his sentence.