'FAT' FREDDIE THOMPSON is being held in isolation in a Dublin jail following his extradition from the Netherlands this week.
The Sunday World has learned that the 33-year-old has been placed in the special D wing of Cloverhill remand prison and is not being allowed to mix with any other inmates. Prison officers are concerned that Thompson could be targeted by inmates. D wing houses high-risk prisoners and notorious inmates like Warren Dumbrell and Wayne Dundon have been imprisoned there in the past.
There are only a small number of cells in the area and inmates are made to eat and exercise at different times so they do not encounter each other. It is understood Thompson will remain in the protection wing until a date is set for his trial on a charge of violent disorder. It had been considered transferring him to another prison, such as Mountjoy, but it was decided that Cloverhill was the most suitable facility. Plea He is due to appear in court again next Tuesday and is expected to look for an early trial date and may indicate his willingness to enter a plea. He was flown back to Dublin from Amsterdam on Tuesday afternoon after a European arrest warrant was issued for him.
He had been arrested in the village of Overtoom, near Amsterdam, on May 5 and was in a Dutch prison until two gar-dai travelled to the capital of the Netherlands on Tuesday and completed the necessary paperwork for his extradition. He has been charged with violent dis-order following an alleged brawl at Morrissey's pub in Cork Street, Dublin, in January 2013. He arrived on board a scheduled Aer Lingus flight and was flanked by two gar-dai during the short journey. Other pas-sengers disembarked before Thompson was taken off the flight.
He and his escort were net by detec-tives from Kevin Street garda station and driven directly to Dublin District Court. Garda Seamus O'Donovan dence that he arrested the father-of-one at 3.2Opm on charged him. Thompson made no reply when the charge was read out to him. The charge sheet alleges that Preddit Thompson committed "violent disorder at Morrissey's Pub, Cork Street, in that you with other persons, namely Anthony Harte present together, used or threatened to use unlawful violence and such conduct, taken together, was such as would cause a person of reason. able firmness present at said place to fear for his or another person's safety". Objected The alleged incident occurred follows ing the burial of a man who had been murdered. Gardai objected to bail because of the seriousness of the charge, which allows for a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment. He was remanded in custody by judge Michael Walsh and presented With the book of evidence against him.
