‘Fat Freddie’ jailed for funeral brawl

“Fat” Freddie Thompson has been jailed for 20 months for his part in a pub brawl “sparked by slagging” at a funeral during which a beer bottle was thrown at the victim.

Thompson, aged 34, of Loreto Rd, Maryland, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to violent disorder along with two other men at Morrissey’s Pub, Cork St, on January 7, 2013. He was extradited from Amsterdam last May and has been in custody since.

The court heard the victim never made a complaint to gardaí and although there were many people in the pub at the time, attending a funeral, nobody came forward to make witness statements.