Fat Freddie by Stephen Breen

Author:Stephen Breen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241986677
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2019-05-15T16:00:00+00:00

Concerned about growing threats of violence, Thompson was transferred to and from a number of prisons as he served out the rest of his sentence. He spent time on a punishment regime in Cork Prison because of his ‘disruptive behaviour’ and also in the Midlands Prison. He would later serve the remainder of his sentence at Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison.

Released from prison on 1 August 2015, Thompson returned to his mother’s home in Maryland, south inner-city Dublin. Unlike many of his associates, ‘Fat Freddie’ had no visible means of wealth and was not listed as a property owner in Ireland. The suspicion, however, was that he had access to a bank account registered in a female associate’s name. Though supposedly unemployed, Thompson was still able to travel around Europe, stay in the best hotels and hire his own personal drivers.

Freddie’s release caused major security concerns for gardaí, as, worried about the murders of the two Kavanagh brothers and the breakdown in relations between Gary Hutch and Daniel Kinahan, the scared gangster decided to remain in Dublin, avoiding the cartel HQ in Estepona. As his paranoia grew, gardaí believe he was constantly in disguise and staying at different safe houses around the city.

A week later, gardaí received intelligence that he had spent a few days in Tenerife before travelling to Birmingham. Thompson obviously decided he was safer in the UK than in Dublin, as he remained there under the protection of Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh and Maurice Sines.

Around the same time, intelligence reports revealed that a meeting had been held in the Spanish capital, Madrid, between Christy Kinahan, his sidekick John Cunningham, Gerry Hutch, his brother Patsy and other Hutch associates. The aim of the meeting was to broker a deal between Daniel Kinahan and Gary Hutch. In return for Gary’s safety, the Hutch representatives agreed to pay €200,000 in compensation to Daniel Kinahan for the shooting outside his apartment in Spain the previous year, in which the innocent boxer Jamie Moore had been injured.

Once the deal had been brokered, Gary Hutch, who had remained in Amsterdam under the protection of associates of the Hutch gang, returned to the Costa del Sol. However, unlike in previous years, Hutch did not have the support of his friend and former flatmate Freddie Thompson. In the view of one investigator in Spain:

When Hutch went back to Spain, he was increasingly isolated and no longer had Freddie Thompson by his side. Nobody seems to know why he went back because the distrust between him and Daniel Kinahan would always be there. Gary Hutch must have felt safe because he had his uncle, who was a big player on the underworld scene and went back a long way with Christy Kinahan, negotiating on his behalf.

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