The Independent
IRELAND — A High Court Judge is to hear submissions from a prisoner who claims his detention is invalid because he was raped at knife-point while in custody.
Today at the High Court Mr Justice Gerard Hogan directed that the prisoner, who claims he was raped at knife-point by another inmate at Mountjoy prison in late 2011, be brought before the High Court next week.
This would allow the court can determine if it is to hold a full, formal inquiry into the legality of the prisoner’s ongoing detention. The judge ordered that the prisoner cannot be identified by the media and should only be referred to to as ‘Mr Y’. He is serving a sentence after being convicted of assaults contrary to sections 2 & 3 of the Non Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997, the Judge said.
Full story: Prisoner claims detention invalid because he was ‘raped at knife-point’