Prisoner who died from overdose had no history of drug problems
A senior prison official has admitted that the death of a prisoner on enhanced status from a heroin overdose on a wing in Wheatfield Prison with no history of drug problems was “unusual”, reports Seán McCárthaigh.
Thomas Stokes (23) with an address at a halting site at Oldcastle Park Lawns, Clondalkin, Co Dublin, was found unresponsive in his cell in Wheatfield Prison on the morning of September 16, 2017.