Ireland Crime

Named as

Victim

Born

Between January 2004 and January 2005, from the ages reported

Offences

Murder

Where

Co. Dublin

Reporting

2 reports, 6 Jan 2025 to 6 Jan 2025

Outlets

dublinlive.ie, irishmirror.ie

• Murderer critically ill after collapsing in Dublin prison cell Murder · Co. Dublin

  Gerald Dunne, 49, stabbed Liam Thompson, 20, to death during a row over a call box at the Rialto House pub in Dolphin's Barn, south inner city Dublin, on 26 January 1999. Dunne was first convicted in 2001 but the conviction was quashed on appeal, a second trial collapsed, and he was finally convicted after a fresh trial in May 2004. He has been locked up since the end of January 1999, serving a life sentence at Wheatfield Prison. On 28 December 2024, Dunne was found unconscious in his cell at Wheatfield Prison and is critically ill in a Dublin hospital.

  Sentenced, 6 Jan 2025Victim · 2 reports

Each entry shows how that report described them.

1. 6 Jan2025
   Otherdublinlive.ie, in Murderer critically ill after collapsing in Dublin prison cell

   Dublin murderer locked up for 26 years 'seriously ill after prison collapse'

   victim, Liam Thompson, 20, male, irish (judged from name)Liam Thompson♂20IE
2. 6 Jan2025
   Sentencedirishmirror.ie, in Murderer critically ill after collapsing in Dublin prison cell

   Knife murderer locked up for 26 years 'seriously ill after prison collapse'

   victim, Liam Thompson, 20, male, irish (judged from name)Liam Thompson♂20IE

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