Psychotic killer ‘did not receive proper care’

Psychotic killer Stephen Egan did not receive proper psychiatric care in prison after he fatally assaulted Gary Douch in a packed cell in August 2006.

Psychotic killer ‘did not receive proper care’

The damning Commission of Investigation report detailed a litany of psychiatric and management failures involving Egan leading up to the fatal assault of Mr Douch in Mountjoy Prison.

But the report also said that, following the attack and after he was transferred back to prison from the Central Mental Hospital, Egan did not get appropriate psychiatric care in prison.

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