Cellmate killer guilty of manslaughter

A Mountjoy prisoner who beat his 20-year-old cellmate to death has been found not guilty of his murder, but guilty of his manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.

Stephen Egan (aged 25) of Belcamp Crescent, Coolock, Dublin killed Gary Douche on August 1, 2006, after being transferred to the over-crowded prison without the anti-psychotic medicine prescribed to him in the Central Mental Hospital.