Fred Flannery: Accused of three murders, he hanged himself yesterday.

THE man dubbed The House of Horrors killer took his own life yesterday without ever being convicted of the gruesome murders of three men.

Freddie Flannery’s trial in the Central Criminal Court in June 1996 collapsed after a judge ruled late disclosure of documents by gardaí was detrimental to him getting a fair hearing.

He had stood charged with the murder of Patrick ‘Patch’ O’Driscoll, 32, parts of whose body were found buried in woodlands on the outskirts of Cork city. He had been cut up and burned.