'King Scum' Tony Felloni died after collapsing on toilet in rehab, inquest rules

Felloni was regarded as one of the key figures for the heroin epidemic which ravished poor inner city communities in Dublin during the 1980s and he was blamed for creating the first generation of heroin addicts in the capital

Tony Felloni ahead of a court appearance in 1998. A sitting of Dublin District Coroner’s Court on Thursday heard Felloni had suffered a series of falls in the months before his death. File picture

One of the most notorious criminal figures in Dublin’s illegal drug trade, Tony Felloni, died after suddenly collapsing while on a toilet in a rehabilitation facility two years ago, an inquest has heard.

Felloni, aged 81, a divorced father of seven with an address at Drumcondra Road, Dublin 9, who had the nickname 'King Scum', was pronounced dead at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital on April 22, 2024.