Killer Costello throws prison party for friends and family weeks after being caught with mobile phone behind bars.
Scumbag: Killer Christopher Costello murdered gang boss Kieran Keane Scumbag: Killer Christopher Costello murdered gang boss Kieran Keane MURDER Inc killer Christopher ‘Smokey’ Costello enjoyed a jail-house family party, just weeks after being caught red-handed with a mobile phone.
He was joined this week by 14 family members – including adults and children – for the gathering in a visitors’ room reserved for privileged prisoners at the Midlands Prison.
The so-called ‘enhanced’ room was available to Costello even though he is currently serving punishment for possessing a mobile phone, according to sources. Inmates and jailers are furious over what they see as kid-glove treatment for the notorious Limerick mobster, according to one Sunday World source.
It is claimed that the prison tuck-shop was even asked to organise a Black Forest Gateau for the gathering. Sources also claim that some of Costello’s visitors have been previously refused entry, after failing to get past screening procedures.
“It seems like the Limerick boys can get whatever they want and they don’t have to worry about getting into trouble,” claimed one source.
Such visits are sometimes allowed in the event of special family occasions, or if senior staff or medical officers believe it can help troubled inmates.
Costello has been a disruptive prisoner since being jailed for life for the 2003 murder of Kieran Keane (below).
In 2010, Smokey was also caught with a mobile phone. Along with Anthony ‘Noddy’ McCarthy, Costello has been involved in threats against jail staff and provoking unrest.
The most infamous incident came when a jailer in Wheatfield Prison refused to open a gate for the thug in 2008. The gangster’s response was: “F**k you, you’re dead.”
Not long afterwards, as the officer pulled up in his car at a set of traffic lights, a black BWW SUV pulled up beside him. The windows slid down and two guns were pointed in his direction.
Members of the McCarthy-Dundon faction have also been heavily involved in running drug smuggling while behind bars. At one point, more than 80 inmates were identified as being part of the faction before it began to implode.
Like Smokey, three of the four Dundon brothers involved in crime are now serving life sentences. Costello was jailed for life along with four others, including John Dundon, in 2003 for luring rival gangster Kieran Keane to his death.
The trial judge warned at the time that the men would likely stay behind bars so long as the underworld feuding continued in Limerick. And recent seizures in Mountjoy have raised fears that prison gangs are back on the rise.
Ten days ago jailers found 60 litres of homemade booze and 14 mobile phones. They seized €3,000 of heroin, 400 prescription tablets, 19 grams of skunk-weed, and five makeshift knifes known as ‘shivs’.
