A former waiter previously "targeted" after posting a social media threat has been charged with using a kettle of boiling water to scald a cellmate who suffered severe burns in a Cloverhill Prison attack

The little girl suffered a burn injury to her right arm.

Mr Justice McGrath paid tribute to the "courage and fortitude" shown by 43-year-old Simone Lee who spent over two months in a burns unit following the incident

At a hearing in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on Tuesday, Judge Martin Nolan said it would be unjust to imprison Conlon as he was not the “prime mover” of this assault.