Prison probes into death of woman

TWO investigations have been launched into the death of a female inmate who was serving a life sentence at Dublin’s Dochas Centre for the murder of her son.

Convicted killer Ruth Murphy was jailed for the murder of her seven-year-old son, Karl, on a Wicklow beach in 2001.

Prison sources last night confirmed the body of the 48-year-old was found in her single cell on Tuesday night and that her death was being investigated as a suicide.