Prison officer ‘blessed he didn’t die’

Derek Brockwell left a prison officer with his “intestines hanging out” such was the ferocity of his knife attack, gardaí have said.

Dan Buckley had tried to block Brockwell when the armed robber slashed a knife across his stomach, garda sources said.

A senior figure in the Prison Officers’ Association, Gabriel Keaveny, said his colleague’s stomach “was cut open” and that he was “blessed he didn’t die”.