The sadistic killer of tragic beautician Nadine Lott has been moved to a high security jail.
Evil Daniel Murtagh who showed no remorse over the brutal murder which shocked the nation, is now being held in the Midlands Prison with fellow convicted murderers Graham Dwyer and Mark Nash.
He beat the 30-year-old mother of his daughter so badly her face was barely recognisable. Murtagh, 34, from Clondalkin, Dublin admitted manslaughter but denied murder.
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He was given a life sentence last October after a jury saw through his lies and convicted him on the murder charge after a two week trial when he tried to damage the good reputation of the popular Wicklow woman.
Soon after his conviction Murtagh was moved to Wheatfield Prison where he received a number of death threats.
He was placed on a special protection wing for his own safety and kept away from most of the rest of the prison population.
A prison source said; "He thinks he is the victim and not Nadine. He can't believe he got life and was convicted of murder. He has now appealed it and is telling everyone who cares to listen he will be back out on the streets in no time.
"He was moved to the Midlands for his own safety. It is also a high security prison and the last thing you'd ever want is a violent individual like him with a real attitude towards women escaping and back on the streets. He won't see the light of day for a long time unless the courts decide otherwise."
Murtagh beat Nadine to near death with his bare hands on December 13, 2019 at her apartment in Arklow, Co Wicklow.
Ambulance crew who arrived at the scene were deeply shocked by the condition he left her in. She died a few days later in hospital.
She and Murtagh didn't have a relationship and she only had him around for the sake of their daughter. They met in Australia in 2012 and then she got pregnant a year later. She then flew home to her family to have the baby and he eventually came back.
After the trial her angry mother Clare said; " He tried to belittle Nadine's murder by saying it was a domestic. There was no domestic because there was no relationship.
"He said in his interviews that he had killed his girlfriend and then in another he said he had killed his wife - and Nadine was neither.
"Everything he said about them was a lie. He lied about them being back together and he waiting for her to come home to have sex, another lie.
"Thankfully the texts Nadine sent him telling him there was no relationship were shown to the court and the jury saw through his lies."
The Prison source added; " A bit like Graham Dwyer he has shown zero remorse here for what he did. Dwyer also thinks he will be back on the streets soon enough."
Dwyer was convicted of tragic Elaine O'Hara's murder in another case that horrified the country.
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