Man being treated for 'prison hooch' illness assaulted officer in Cork hospital

Prison officer was assaulted while restraining the disruptive prisoner at Mercy University Hospital

The man, serving a sentence at Cork Prison, had to be taken by ambulance to hospital. File picture: Dan Linehan

A prisoner became ill after drinking ‘prison hooch’ and was taken to hospital for treatment but he turned on a prison officer by spitting in his face and trying to bite him.

Michael Troy, aged 23, of Ardmore Terrace, Cork Road, Waterford, was serving a sentence at Cork Prison when he had to be taken by ambulance to hospital and carried out the assault.