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Article: Ex-prisoner loses boiling water attack claim.
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- Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- April 12, 2008
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Ex-prisoner loses boiling water attack claim
A FORMER prisoner has lost a court action for damages after a bucket of boiling water was thrown over him by another inmate.
Mr Justice Paul Gilligan yesterday rejected claims by Gary Breen (31) that he was set up by the prison authorities in Wheatfield, Clondalkin.
The High Court judge said that in his view they were not negligent or in breach of duty by failing to prevent the attack on him.
Mr Breen, with an address at Hillview Grove, Ballinteer, Co Dublin, and who, at the time of the incident in January 1999, was serving a 12-month sentence for escaping from garda custody, had sued the ...