Boiling water poured over killer’s face in gruesome jail attack

A man serving 20 years for killing a 16-year-old girl had boiling water poured over his face and chest in a gruesome prison attack.

Some of the steaming water went into Keith Hall’s eyes and ears and onto his mouth in what was the second serious assault on him since he was jailed for the manslaughter of Melanie McCarthy McNamara at the end of July.

Hall, aged 24, was convicted of the manslaughter of Ms McCarthy McNamara, who was mistakenly shot as she sat in a car on Brookview Way, Brookfield, Tallaght, on Feb 7, 2012.