Prisoner at ‘unprecedented’ risk of suicide

The partner of a prisoner deemed to be at “unprecedented” risk of suicide said she was extremely concerned for his welfare during a prison visit just days before he was found dead in his cell.

Roy O’Driscoll’s partner, Jenna Lane, told an inquest yesterday that she was so worried she sought a meeting with the governor of Cork Prison to discuss her concerns.

And it emerged that Mr O’Driscoll, 25, from Summerhill, in Mallow, Co Cork, had been transferred from Portlaoise Prison just days earlier — where a senior nurse staff member deemed him to be at unprecedented risk of suicide —to Cork Prison, without consultation with Portlaoise medical staff.