Slashed prisoner needed 100 stitches

A PRISONER had to get almost 100 stitches after being slashed in the face and back by another inmate in the state’s most overcrowded prison.

The 23-year-old victim suffered appalling injuries after he was attacked in Cork Prison by another 23-year-old inmate wielding a blade embedded in a toothbrush handle.

The makeshift weapon, known in jails as a “shiv”, was recovered later following a search of a cell.