A prison officer has been stabbed by a convicted murderer in an attempted escape from custody today.
The Irish Mirror has learned that killer Graham McEvoy is accused of stabbing a prison officer with a shiv inside a prison van while on a visit to a VHI Swiftcare clinic in Dublin.
Sources say McEvoy is accused of stabbing the prison officer - leaving him with serious facial injuries.
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It is understood brave prison staff battled with McEvoy and managed to subdue him as he attempted to escape from the prison van.
In a statement to this paper the Irish Prison Service said: "We are aware of an incident that occurred on an escort visit from Mountjoy Prison.
"Gardai have been informed and it is not appropriate to comment further.”
McEvoy is now facing a garda probe into the incident and punishment from prison bosses. The injured prison officer was immediately attended to by healthcare staff before being brought to hospital for further treatment.
Sources say he received serious facial injuries and that the incident is being treated as extremely serious by authorities.
“This was an attempted escape,” a source said. “Thankfully due to the brave actions of this prison officer and staff, the prisoner was subdued and brought back to prison.
“He was left with very serious facial injuries and it could have been so much worse.” In 2017 McEvoy was jailed for life for the brutal stabbing of Paul Curran (23), who he stabbed to death at a flat complex in Crumlin, Dublin, on July 16 2016.
McEvoy had pleaded guilty to manslaughter but was found guilty of murder by a jury after a week-long trial.
