Arsonist pleads guilty to kettle assaults on prison officers

An arsonist who assaulted three prison officers with a kettle after he was reprimanded is to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Eddie Sherlock (aged 49), who has 51 previous convictions including five for assault, was placed in an industrial school aged nine years old, acquired his first conviction while homeless at 11 years old and has spent the rest of his life in and out of prison.