A prisoner has been left seriously injured and fighting for his life after another attack in Mountjoy Jail last weekend.
It is understood he was beaten up by successive groups of two men in his cell. The inmate was rushed to the nearby Mater Hospital where at one stage prison officers thought he was going to die because he lost so much blood.
He had to have his spleen removed in an emergency operation and also suffered several broken ribs. Mountjoy prison sources say the man is going to live but endured a "terrible beating." He is linked to the Kinahan crime gang in the jail.
