Prison officers tell inquest they would have put man in padded cell if risk level was clear

Prison officers have told an inquest that they would have placed a prisoner, deemed by medical staff in another prison to be at “unprecedented” risk of suicide, in a padded cell had they known the level of risk.

The Cork Prison officers made their comments during the second day of an inquest yesterday into the death of Roy O’Driscoll, 25, from Summerhill, Mallow, Co Cork, in a cell in Cork Prison on May 10, 2013.

Mr O’Driscoll had been serving a seven-year sentence for assault, and was transferred from Portlaoise Prison to Cork on May 1.