Patrick O'Connell
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Yeah, he would have been in prison.
He was actually in prison in connection with another crime, but he'd actually been charged in connection with the torture attack on Barry Moore.
So last July, Devin Hennessy would have pleaded guilty
in connection with that attack.
So he was in prison awaiting sentence, but he would have already pleaded guilty to that at that stage.
So basically there was an incident in the yard in Mount Joy prison where you had Sean Powell and Devin Hennessey come to blows.
And Sean Powell came off the better of that.
He left Devin Hennessey with a suspected broken nose.
And it was in the wake of that incident that Sean Powell would have been moved from Mount Joy prison
He was originally moved from Mountjoy to the Midlands, but subsequently he was moved from the Midlands up to Castlereagh, where it appears he was unhappy to be.
Well, they've split them up.
And they've split them up for quite obvious reasons.
I mean, they've seen previously the damage to keeping large numbers of the Kenan cartel in Mount Joy.
It gave rise to trafficking routes and all that kind of thing.
So when it comes to the Hennessys, the five members of the Hennessy group who were charged over Barrymore, the two of the...
Two of them are over in, I think in Clover Hill.
There's one in Wheatfield, one in Mount Joy and one down in Port Leash.
So they have split them up.
Like would they, when they went in, would people have been fearful?
Would other inmates have been fearful and showed them respect?