Gerald Dunne, serving a life sentence for murder, is critically ill in a Dublin hospital after collapsing in his cell during the Christmas period. The incident left him fighting for his life for several days.
This convicted murderer is critically ill in hospital – after he collapsed in his cell during the Christmas period. The Irish Mirror has confirmed that Gerald Dunne , who has been locked up for almost 26 years, was found unconscious in his cell at west Dublin ’s Wheatfield Prison on December 28. Sources say the reason for his collapse is unclear – but it left him fighting for his life for several days. A Prison Service spokesman declined to comment.
He said: “The Irish Prison Service does not comment on individual prisoner cases.” There were real fears that Dunne, 49, would die, but the lifer's condition in a Dublin hospital has improved in recent days. But sources said Dunne, with a previous address at Rafter's Avenue, Drimnagh, Dublin, was still critically ill. “It was not looking good for him for a while, but he has improved a bit in recent days,” a source told us. Dunne, who is also known as Gerard, has been locked up since the end of January 1999 – after he was charged with murdering a man in his native Dublin. He went through three trials over the murder of Liam Thompson, 20, in Dolphin’s Barn in south inner city Dublin on January 26, 1999. He was first convicted of Mr Thompson’s murder in 2001, but that was quashed on appeal. A second trial collapsed, but he was finally convicted again of Mr Thompson’s murder after a fresh trial in May 2004. He stabbed Mr Thompson to death during a row that started over the use of a call box. Dunne had denied the murder. His eight day trial heard that Mr Thompson's grandfather had been buried on the day of the murder. After the funeral, relatives went for a drink in the Rialto House pub off the South Circular Roa
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