Husband accused of murdering his wife and hiding body in wardrobe found dead in prison
Keith Lee found hanged in Dublin prison cell after wife's remains were discovered in a bedsit two days after she was reported missing in February
THE estranged husband of a murder victim whose body was found stuffed in a wardrobe has died in prison.
Keith Lee was found hanged at Dublin‘s Mountjoy Prison in the early hours of this morning.
It has been reported that he made his prison bed up to look as though he was sleeping in it. Lee was found in the shower unit in his cell at about 8am.
Lee allegedly wrapped Joanne’s body in a sleeping bag and hid it in a wardrobe in February.
Her remains were discovered at the bedsit two days after Lee himself reported her missing.
Lee, 41, suffered two broken ankles after jumping from a third-floor window as police entered the flat.
A spokesman for the Irish Prison Service said: “The Irish Prison Service can confirm an inmate passed away at Mountjoy Prison in the early hours of this morning. Foul play is not suspected.”
in Duleek, , on February 24.
The Ball family pledged to focus on honouring Joanne’s life, not her final moments.
Speaking about the circumstances of her death, Fr Conlon declared: “Actions such as this solve nothing, they only increase pain.
“But Catherine and Dermot were very anxious this gathering in the church today would not be a commemoration of the last hours of Joanne’s life but rather it would serve as a celebration of all her life.
“For that is what we have come to remember, all of her life.
“And that life was a life lived in love, at the heart of this family.”
Inquires have now been launched into Lee’s prison death by the Garda, the Irish Prison Service and the Inspector of Prisons.