A 19 year old prisoner cut his wrist and arm and hanged himself with a shoelace after receiving protest counselling for HIV, an inquest heard yesterday.
Prison officers from St Patrick's Institution described how they found James Molloy, of Inver Road, Cabra West, hanging from the window of his cell on the night of March 28th, 1996.
A jury of nine men at Dublin City Coroner's Court recorded a verdict of death by suicide.