Yoga’s helping killer Drumbell to stay calm in his long stretch
ONE of the most dangerous killers in the Irish prison system has been trying to calm his anger by doing yoga behind bars.
Violent brute Warren Dumbrell, 48, who along with his brother Jeffrey was jailed in 2011 for the murder of Chris Cawley in Inchicore, Dublin, has been spending hours every day in his cell practising his meditative poses.
A source told the Irish Sunday Mirror how Dumbrell, who is reportedly also working as a “minder” for caged thug Freddie Thompson, has been spotted doing headstands for up to half an hour as well as the downward facing dog and tree pose at the Midlands Prison in Portlaoise.
The source said: “You would never in a million years envision someone like Warren would be into yoga.
“He’s as volatile as they come and is still deemed very dangerous. There is talk that he once smashed through a window just because another inmate was antagonising him on the other side of it.
“Over the last couple of years he has developed an interest in yoga and practises it every day in his cell. It seems to calm him.
“He can often be seen practising handstands, sometimes for 20-30 minutes at a time. How he’s able to stand straight after all the blood has gone to his head is beyond comprehension.”
The source added that Dumbrell, who has 27 previous convictions, also likes to go for walks in the prison’s walled oasis.
The source added: “As well as yoga, he also makes use of the prison garden which cost somewhere in the region of €40,000 to build a few years ago.”
When he was jailed, Dumbrell’s convictions stretched back to 1987 when he received his first for burglary aged just 13. In 2015, Dumbrell and his brother Jeffrey failed to reverse the outcome of their first trial before a fresh jury.
It was the second time a Central Criminal Court jury found them guilty after the original verdict of 2008 was quashed in July 2010.
Warren was found guilty along with Jeffrey of murdering Mr Cawley, who their brother Tommy had planned to fight.
Warren was out of jail for just two months when he killed the victim in an attack in October 2006.
Tommy Dumbrell had challenged the father-of-six to a fight at a bus stop.
But when Mr Cawley showed up Warren and Jeffrey chased him into the stairwell of the flats where he lived and stabbed him to death.
The older brother led the vicious Mountjoy Prison riot in 1997 when five warders were taken hostage.
The thug received 10 years for sparking the mayhem but returned to his violent ways on his release in 2006.
He’s as volatile as they come and is still dangerous
PRISON SOURCE ON WARREN DUMBRELL