Limerick Prison. Image: Google Maps Limerick Prison. Image: Google Maps A “VULNERABLE” MAN suffering with a psychiatric medical condition died in his cell at Limerick Prison after a “systems failure, in relation to his incarceration”, his inquest today heard.
He had no record of being arrested prior to his incarceration and he no previous convictions. He was found dead in his cell which he did not share with anyone on 5 May.A post-mortem revealed he died by asphyxia consistent with a ligature around his neck. The inquest heard that Mr Hayes Barrett should have been checked 36 times, but he was checked on only nine occasions.
“We weren’t 100% that the officers on the night got the up to date special obs list,” Mr Kennedy said. An internal prison probe discovered the “practicalities of what we were doing as a service didn’t stack up”. The family’s solicitor, Jerry Twomey reading a statement on behalf of the Hayes Barrett family afterwards said: “Sean had never been in any trouble whatsoever in his life. To this day he’s never been convicted of a single criminal offence.”
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