Duo to be sentenced over Mountjoy contraband

A prison officer and an inmate are to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in relation to the smuggling of contraband into Mountjoy Prison over a number of years.

Prison officer Dillon O'Brien (aged 27), of Charnwood Meadows, Clonsilla, pleaded guilty that "being a member of the prison service he did knowingly and without the authorisation of the governor conveyed a bottle of vodka and mobile phone to prisoner David Mulvey" in Mountjoy Prison on March 13, 2007.