Inmate sentenced for vicious assault on prison officer

An inmate who assaulted a prison officer at Mountjoy Prison in a “determined and vicious attack” has been given a six-month sentence to run consecutive to a 10-year sentence he is currently serving.

Leon Wright (aged 22), of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing harm to Colm O’Connell at Mountjoy Prison on August 27, 2008.