Solitary confinement ‘not in breach of murderer’s rights’

The Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court decision that the detention of convicted murderer Daniel McDonnell in solitary confinement for a year breaches his rights to bodily and psychological integrity.

McDonnell is serving a life sentence for the murder of teenager Melanie McCarthy McNamara in a drive-by shooting in Tallaght in February 2012.