Prisoner who kicked cellmate to death loses appeal

A man who kicked and punched his Mountjoy prison cellmate to death has failed in an attempt to overturn his sentence of life imprisonment at the Court of Criminal Appeal.

Stephen Egan (aged 27), formerly of Belcamp Crescent, Coolock, killed 20-year-old Gary Douche, also from the Coolock area, after the two men had been placed in a holding cell with five other inmates on August 1, 2006.