Mountjoy victim threatened to cut accused's throat, court hears

The jury in the trial of a 28-year-old prisoner accused of stabbing another inmate to death in Mountjoy has heard that the deceased had threatened to cut the accused man’s throat.

Declan O’Reilly told gardaí that Derek Glennon had bullied him for three months before Mr Glennon’s death. He had asked a prison officer to move him to another wing of Mountjoy as he was “under pressure” but had refused to go on “protection”.