Glen Thompson, one of two brothers who tried to kill Patsy Hutch, attacked the woman without warning while speaking with her in the visitors’ box and in front of children who were also present, shortly before 6.15 pm.
Sources said Thompson landed one punch before three young training officers moved in and restrained him.
“It was a terrifying ordeal for this woman and the children present,” a source said.
“Thankfully, the officers present moved in very quickly and took him down before a second blow could be struck.
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“But whatever way he caught her, there was a lot of blood so he did do damage.”
The Sunday World understands Thompson was subsequently transferred to the prison’s Challenging Behaviour Unit (CBU) and is expected to be transferred out of the prison later today.
Just last August, Thompson was one of a number of prisoners moved out of Mountjoy Prison following a major crackdown in the prison in response to an arson attack on a senior prison officer’s home.
Thompson and his brother Gary are serving 12 year sentences after a court heard they were caught “red handed” in a Kinahan cartel plot to carry out the “execution style” murder of Patsy Hutch – a brother of well-known gangland figure Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch.
Patsy Hutch
A court heard the brothers were part of a three-man “hit for hire” gang” that were caught just 250 metres from Patsy Hutch’s home in Champions Avenue in Dublin’s north inner city on March 10, 2018.
Thompson became involved in the hit when he met with more senior Kinahan supervisors at the Costa Coffee café in Santry on March 4th 2018.
His brother Gary, who is ten years older, was also recruited and two days later the three man hit team was completed by Afghanistan veteran Robert Browne.
On March 9th, the day before the planned killing, Browne and Glen Thompson moved a van from Finglas to the getaway point on Stoney Road in East Wall.
The gardaí already knew of the plot to kill Patsy Hutch and had set up an operation to save his life.
They bugged the white van which the gang bought on Done Deal in February and registered to a non-existent address.
Undercover officers followed the gang members as they left their homes, held meetings in the café in Santry and carried out reconnaissance all over the city.
The Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau continuously assessed the progress of the planned assassination weighing up the need to gather the evidence against the increasing danger to Patsy Hutch’s life.
When the murder plot reached a critical point on March 10th 2018 the Garda operation changed from surveillance to intervention.
Armed officers from the Emergency Response Unit moved in and pulled the three men out of the van at gunpoint.
They put them on the ground with their hands cuffed behind their backs.
Three pairs of gloves, three mobile phones, a wig, a water bottle and several car keys were found in the van.
Three of the loaded guns were found in the Audi, the sub-machine gun on the passenger seat, the revolver and pistol on the back seat.
The hit team had – in the words of the judge – been caught “red handed.”
The Thompsons were jailed for 12 and a half years each while Robert Browne was sentenced to 11 and a half years.