Ex-inmate awarded €150k over jail attack

A former prisoner who sued the State over an incident in which he was slashed in the face and body in an unprovoked attack by an fellow inmate 10 years ago has been awarded €150,000 in damages.

Peter Creighton, aged 34, from Clondalkin in Dublin was serving a sentence in Wheatfield Prison, Dublin, when he was attacked with a Stanley knife on Jan 19, 2003. He later needed 120 stitches for two-and-a-half feet of lacerations.

The High Court heard the attack occurred in a medical room where methadone was being dispensed to about 15 to 20 prisoners.