MOBSTER John Dundon has refused water for the last five days after going on hunger strike in protest at his failure to have his murder trial adjourned, a source has revealed.
Dundon has been refusing food for the last five weeks in the Midlands Prison and has dropped from 18 and a half stone to 11 and a half stone.
The notorious Limerick criminal is now also claiming he has refused all water for the last five days before his upcoming trial, which is due to start on Tuesday.
On Friday, Dundon (29), from Hyde Road, failed in his bid to have his trial for the murder of rugby player Shane Geoghegan adjourned.
He had brought High Court proceedings over the Special Criminal Court’s refusal to adjourn his case until 2014.
He sought the adjournment because his lawyers claim they have not been given sufficient time to go through the large volume of material, including CCTV footage and documentation, about the case furnished to them by gardai.
A source said Dundon claims he suffered a similar “injustice” during his previous trial for the murder of bouncer Brian Fitzgerald.
Dundon was acquitted of murder after documents given to the defence proved supergrass witness James Martin Cahill was unreliable.
The source said: “Dundon claims his lawyers have not been given time to go through more than 26,000 pages of documents given to him by prosecutors.
“He has been saying it took the prosecution seven months to prepare, but he is only getting two weeks to mount a defence.”
