Man sentenced to life for manslaughter of fellow prison inmate

A mentally ill man has been sentenced to life in prison at the Central Criminal Court for the manslaughter of his Mountjoy prison cellmate.

Man sentenced to life for manslaughter of fellow prison inmate

A mentally ill man has been sentenced to life in prison at the Central Criminal Court for the manslaughter of his Mountjoy prison cellmate.

Stephen Egan (aged 25) of Belcamp Crescent, Coolock, Dublin killed 20-year-old Gary Douche, also from the Coolock area, on August 1, 2006. Egan had been transferred to the over-crowded prison without the anti-psychotic medicine prescribed to him in the Central Mental Hospital.

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