A court has heard the Dublin teenager accused of murdering 16 year old Melanie McNamara was placed in a single cell, for his ‘own protection’, while awaiting trial.
The juryÂ’s been hearing evidence of 2 letters 19 year old Daniel McDonnell of Brookview Lawns, Tallaght allegedly wrote while in St PatrickÂ’s Institution in March 2012.
Our Courts Correspondent Francesca Comyn reports: