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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Paul Healy & John Hand

Prisoner who cut woman's throat rushed to hospital with 'severe' self-inflicted injuries

A man who slit a woman's throat and left her to die when he was aged 15 was rushed to hospital from prison this week with "severe" self-inflicted injuries.

The Irish Mirror has learned that the lag - who cannot be identified as he was convicted as a minor - cut himself a number of times in Wheatfield Prison on Wednesday.

The man has been stabilised in hospital and is expected to survive.

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