A notorious double killer regarded as Ireland’s most violent prisoner has finally been moved out of Mountjoy Prison where he was regarded as a danger to staff and other inmates.
Evil Stephen Penrose, 38, fought non stop running battles with staff and also physically threatened and fought with several prisoners.
Over the past year he had been detained on and off in a cell in isolation and also for a short time carried out a “dirty protest“, leaving excrement in his cell.
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He also attacked prison officers and tried to knife one in the neck.
Penrose was regarded as a bad influence in Mountjoy but other prisons around the country had refused to take him.
He was given a life sentence earlier this year for the brutal murder of his criminal friend Philip Finnegan, 24, in Co Kildare.
Penrose stabbed him, cut up and tried to burn the body and buried the young man in a shallow grave in a remote woods.
A man out walking his dog accidentally came across the remains of the victim who had previously been reported missing.
Normally when a prisoner gets life they are moved from Mountjoy to Wheatfield, the Midlands or Portlaoise Prison but Penrose was regarded as too difficult to handle.
But last weekend the notorious brute was finally moved out of Mountjoy to Cork Prison.
It is understood he is also being detained there in a cell on his own.
He had often been kept in a special protection unit in Mountjoy, where he was often locked up for 24 hours a day.
A prison source said: “Penrose is one of the most dangerous prisoners we ever had. We will be glad to see the back of him. He would pick a fight with himself if he could.
"He was a danger to prison staff and other inmates.
"Many other prisoners were terrified of him. Mountjoy will be a much safer place without him.
"Maybe a smaller prison like Cork will suit him.”
The first person Penrose killed was another friend David Sharkey, 28, from Navan, Co Meath in 2010 in a row over drugs.
He was found guilty of manslaughter and got a nine-year jail sentence.
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