Judge notes long-term injuries of prison officers who intervened in prisoner attack

The attacker was jailed for four months today on two counts of assaulting prison officers in the course of his attack on another inmate.

Inspector Martin Canny said Gino Delaney was in Cork Prison on August 2, 2017, when the assaults occurred. File picture: Eddie O'Hare

A prisoner got a rush of blood to the head and attacked another prisoner who had left a pipe-bomb outside his parents’ home but he injured two prison officers in the process.

The attacker was jailed for four months today on two counts of assaulting prison officers in the course of his attack on the other man.