Mountjoy stabbing victim a 'hostile bully', court told

The jury in the trial of a Mountjoy prisoner accused of murdering another inmate in a stabbing incident has heard that the deceased was an “extremely aggressive and hostile” bully who was “totally unpredictable”.

Prison officer Paul Hickey told the Central Criminal Court in Dublin that he spoke to Declan O’Reilly after the alleged incident, who told him that the deceased, Derek Glennon, had bullied him and threatened his family.