Killer Nash loses his High Court bid for prison transfer

Convicted killer Mark Nash has lost his High Court bid to be returned from the Midlands Prison to Arbour Hill prison, Dublin, where he has spent the past 15 years.

At the High Court, Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns, in dismissing his legal challenge, told him nothing had been put before the court that suggested his life and safety was in any imminent danger from other prisoners and courts should only intervene in the gravest of cases.

Nash sought the transfer on the basis he was under threat from other prisoners and had become significantly suicidal. He has already served a 15-year life sentence in Arbour Hill, Dublin, for the murder in 1997 of two people in Ballintober, Co Roscommon.