Prisoners Who Served Time With Enoch Burke To Get Sentences Halved

A HIGH Court judge has ruled that prisoners who had to endure time with Enoch Burke have ‘paid their dues’ and granted dozens of inmates an early release.

Mr Burke, who spent almost 700 days in prison since September 2022 for breaching court orders to stay away from Wilson’s Hospital School in Co Westmeath, was released from Mountjoy yesterday afternoon.

“Due to the psychological trauma enforced on many of these inmates, I hereby halve the sentence of anyone who may have come into contact with Mr Burke,” Mr Justice Brian Cregan explained of the ruling. “Those poor bastards have gone through enough already, no matter what crime they committed.”

However, many of the inmates have asked if they could be kept inside and said they were happy to serve their full sentence if it meant they never had to bump into Enoch Burke again.

“It’s rare to see prisoners turn down an opportunity to be released,” one prison source told WWN. “Some have even barricaded themselves into their cells, just to be sure.”

As he was released, loud cheers could be heard over Burke’s four hour speech outside of the prison, where he now refuses to leave.