Police probe prison death

The death is the sixth at the prison in two years

Police are investigating the death of a remand prisoner at Northern Ireland's top security Maghaberry Jail.

Roseanne Irvine, 34, was found dead in her cell on Wednesday night.

It is not believed anyone else was involved in her death.

Chief Human Rights Commissioner Brice Dickson said he was concerned at the incident, which is the sixth death at the jail in the past two years.

The Prison Service has not said how the woman died.

"It seems obvious that better psychiatric services need to be provided," he said.

"I don't know whether that was a relevant factor in this death but I think they should be looking at the regime itself which women prisoners have to undergo.

"There is a punishment block in that part of the prison where women, if they are in it, are locked up for 23 hours a day.

"For somebody who is perhaps mentally disturbed I would have thought that was the last thing you would want to do."