Prison bosses are now considering waiting to move Jonathan Dowdall until his appeal is heard before the courts.
This paper has learned that bosses within the Irish Prison Service have decided to wait until Dowdall’s appeal of his conviction on June 20 before he may then be moved in with sex offenders in Dublin’s Arbour Hill Prison. Sources say logistically this may be the best place to move Dowdall - with it being in close proximity to the courts, and given that there is almost no other prison in the country deemed safe enough for the high-profile prisoner.
It had been thought that Dowdall would be imminently moved out of Limerick Prison - but sources say the decision to move him has been delayed. “It is a sort of a wait and see kind of thing right now. He possibly can’t stay there in Limerick but for now he’s not being moved,” a source said.
