The Crumlin gangster had been serving his life sentence in Limerick prison since last August.
The Crumlin gangster had been serving his life sentence in Limerick prison on an isolation wing since last August.
Last weekend he was moved back to Portlaoise where he had previously been locked up with several other members of Ireland’s organised crime gangs, according to Sunday World sources.
He had been shifted out of the prison to the next-door Midlands complex before again being sent to Limerick earlier this year.
Thompson got a life sentence in 2018 after a trial at the Special Criminal Court for the murder of David Douglas in 2016.
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Douglas (55), a father of one, was shot six times as he had lunch at a counter in his partner’s shop, ‘Shoestown’, on Bridgefoot Street, Dublin 8, on July 1, 2016.
He lost an appeal against the conviction last year in which he said CCTV footage of him should not have been admitted in court.
The killing had been part of the infamous Hutch-Kinahan feud which broke out after Gary Hutch’s murder in Spain in 2015.
Fat Freddie’s cousin David Byrne died during the revenge attack at the Regency Hotel in February 2016 when members of the Hutch faction tried to kill Cartel boss Daniel Kinahan
Fat Freddie was later prominent among the mourners at the grandiose funeral who included Kinahan.
Byrne’s brother Liam out of prison in the UK where he served a sentence over Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh doomed plot to set up a weapons find for the police to get a lower prison sentence.
Another cousin and gang member Liam Roe, who had suffered from a blood disorder, died in hospital last year.
While serving his sentence Fat Freddie’s mother Lisa also passed away suddenly in April 2023.
He was later brought under tight security to the funeral home in Dublin to pay his last respects ahead of the funeral.
A letter to his mother was read out at the funeral as he watched via a webcam from prison.
In August this year, Thompson was transferred to the isolation wing in Limerick Prison where he was kept separate from other inmates.
At the time he shared the wing with Jonathan Dowdall who was serving a sentence for his role in the Regency Hotel attack.
Dowdall has since been released and entered the witness security progamme after giving evidence against Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch who was acquitted of the Regency murder.
Despite being on opposite sides of the feud Thompson and Dowdall had been exchanging pleasantries in prison before Dowdall’s release.
The Sunday World previously reported how the move from the Midlands Prison came after threats from a violent gang which is heavily involved in drug dealing in the prison.
During a previous stint in Limerick Prison, Fat Freddie complained to the High Court in 2021 about his conditions there.
In that legal action he said as soon as he arrived in Limerick he was confined to a padded cell without his clothing or personal items and was isolated.