Prisoner 55511 spends first night in prison

FACING at least five years behind bars, prisoner 55511 was escorted from the courts and driven by prison officers to Mountjoy Jail.

Killer Eamonn Lillis was temporarily held there while the papers for his sentence were finalised and then transported to Dublin’s Wheatfield Prison.

He had spent the night before his sentence was announced in Cloverhill Prison. There, the 52-year-old had his tea and supper and spent the night in a three-man cell with two other inmates on the C1 landing.