The man who “danced on” a prisoner’s body after a vicious beating has admitted the
murder, the Irish Mirror can reveal.
The thug, who repeatedly stamped on Robert O’Connor’s head in a Mountjoy prison cell last summer, is attempting to take the rap – despite the involvement of three other lags. The criminal, aged in his late 30s, made the admission to gardai after he was arrested in jail.
O’Connor was brutally beaten and kicked in a cell on Mountjoy’s C2 landing by four men last July in an attack which lasted seconds. The 34-year-old, who was found with his trousers around his ankles following the incident, was rushed to the nearby Mater Hospital but died the following week having suffered a severe brain bleed.
