Depraved child rapist Stephen ‘Rossi' Walsh claims prison conditions are ‘deplorable'

Sunday World

13-05-2025

Notorious gangland sicko demands gardaí probe his detention
Depraved gangland rapist Stephen 'Rossi' Walsh has sent a letter to Garda Commissioner Drew Harris demanding officers be sent into the Midlands Prison to probe what he has described as his 'unlawful' detention there.
Walsh, a former member of Martin 'The General' Cahill's gang, was released from the Midlands Prison in November after he served almost 15 years for sexual attacks on two little girls.
But the paedophile was returned to the lock-up in late January after it emerged that he had been living rough and had failed to notify gardai of his whereabouts.
Under the terms the Sex Offenders Act, Walsh was legally obliged to notify authorities of any change of address.
The 78-year-old has since taken 'habeas corpus' proceedings in the High Court aimed at having his renewed period of detention declared illegal amid claims that he is a 'financially unsound' person.
A convoluted eight-page affidavit filed by the child predator, who has long fancied himself as a 'jailhouse lawyer', also details a series of issues ranging from his inability to file a criminal complaint with gardai and the 'deplorable' conditions in the Midlands to his unhappiness with a High Court judge.
In one section, he moans: 'I say due to the State and Midlands Prison authority's denial of reasonable access to gardai, even by way of telephone or by video link or email, I was compelled to take on the onerous task of trying to gain process by way of the State's broken ad hoc postal system'.
Walsh says he had to post a letter to 'file a criminal complaint by writing to the office of the Garda Commissioner for assistance in gaining access to a garda member or members by way of a professional visit at the Midlands Prison so that I can file a criminal complaint.'
Stephen 'Rossi' Walsh leaves the High Court
Walsh continues that he received a written response to the letter from Superintendent J. Molony on March 9, dated from February 24.
This letter, he said, informed him that his letter had been forwarded to the office of the Assistant Commissioner for the Eastern Region and he was given an email to correspond with this address.
Subsequently, he complained: 'I have had no further communication in any shape or form from any member of the gardai regarding my struggle to gain access to the gardai for to file a criminal complaint.'
Walsh's gripe over his lack of access to a member of An Garda Siochana is one of a series detailed in an affidavit entirely written in block capitals.
Regarding the conditions in the prison, he writes that: 'The conditions at Midlands Prison are so unbelievably deplorable and constitutionally unacceptable that they have made the detention of the complainant unlawful and in breach of' several sections of the Constitution and the European Convention of Human Rights.
Walsh also claims the manner in which he was transported to and from Trim District Court on March 11 and the High Court on March 14 was unlawful as it was 'not authorised by any court of law.'
According to court records, his application to have his incarceration declared unlawful by the High Court was refused on April 11.
Walsh was jailed for ten years in February 2010 for raping Ruth Dunne when she was nine.
He has 13 major convictions for theft, extortion, robberies and violent assault.
He destroyed Collins pub in Ballybough, Dublin, in an arson attack in 1992.
Walsh was caged for 15 years for that offence and was released in 2008.
Stephen 'Rossi' Walsh raped a child
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