Prisoner claims Department of Justice breached his confidentiality by sharing letter on alleged abuse

Paschal Kelly said he had assumed his correspondence 'was a protected letter and the IPS and Wheatfield Prison had no way of seeing this letter'. Picture: Padraig O'Reilly

An inmate who alleged he was sexually abused by a prison psychologist says the Department of Justice breached his confidentiality by sharing a letter meant for Justice Minister Helen McEntee with the Irish Prison Service.

Career criminal Paschal Kelly, who is currently serving 18 years at Wheatfield Prison in Dublin for the 2014 tiger kidnapping of a postmistress, wrote to Ms McEntee last March detailing the alleged abuse he had suffered at the hands of the psychologist over an 18-month period across 2021 and 2022.