2016-11-07
"All over an argument about tv channels": man jailed for life for prison murder
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Not guilty
Outcome: Brian Veale (31) was jailed for life at the Central Criminal Court for murdering Graham Johnson in the kitchen of Cork Prison by stabbing him through the heart with a carving knife. Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy offered her condolences to Mr Johnson's family and then sentenced Veale to the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment. "I make that sentence consecutive to the offence imposed on February 28, 2015," she said.; The court heard Veale was in a relationship with a woman and living in Cork before he was charged with a robbery offence and remanded in Cork Prison in February 2015. "He was on remand solely on a robbery and an attempted robbery charge and that is why he was in Cork Prison at the time," said Insp O'Sullivan.