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A mentally ill prisoner who scalded his cellmate with hot water before strangling him has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter by reason…
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Michael Connolly (55) scalded Mark Lawlor (37) with hot water before strangling him in Cloverhill Prison in 2019
A mentally ill prisoner who scalded his cellmate with hot water before strangling him has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter ...
Michael Connolly had pleaded not guilty to the murder of Mark Lawlor by reason of insanity.
A "floridly psychotic" man believed there was a "homosexual conspiracy" in Cloverhill Prison when he scalded a cellmate with hot water before strangling him, a Central Criminal Court trial has heard.