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2021-03-30 to 2024-01-30

This page groups public court reports by matching name and address evidence in the localnews.ie archive. Court reports can include allegations, charges, appeals, convictions and outcomes; read each linked report for its exact status and source attribution.

Courts News Ireland2024-01-30

'Fat' Freddie fails in bid to overturn murder conviction

2024-01-30 · Convoy, Donegal · Court of Appeal

A man serving a life sentence for murder in Dublin in 2016 has failed in his appeal to overturn his conviction at the Court of Appeal. The appellant had challenged the admissibility of CCTV evidence used to identify him driving a vehicle linked to the...

Courts News Ireland2023-04-28

Gangster 'Fat' Freddie Thompson in bid to overturn murder conviction

2023-04-28 · Convoy, Donegal · Court of Appeal

A man from Dublin has launched an appeal against his life sentence for the 2016 murder of a business owner in the capital. The defendant, aged 42, was convicted in 2018 at the Special Criminal Court of involvement in the killing, which occurred on Bridgeroot...

Courts News Ireland2021-06-03

Lee Canavan jailed for life for role in 'Daithi Douglas' murder

2021-06-03 · Convoy, Donegal · Special Criminal Court

The Special Criminal Court has sentenced Dublin man Lee Canavan to life imprisonment for his role in the murder of David Douglas, a fifty-five-year-old who was shot at a city-centre shoe shop in Dublin's Liberties on July 1st, 2016. The three-judge court...

Courts News Ireland2021-05-20

Lee Canavan guilty of murdering David 'Daithí' Douglas

2021-05-20 · Convoy, Donegal · Special Criminal Court

Lee Canavan has been convicted of the murder of David Douglas at the Special Criminal Court following trial in May 2021. The 55-year-old was shot six times at Shoestown, a shoe shop on Bridgefoot Street in Dublin's Liberties, on 1 July 2016. The non-jury...

Courts News Ireland2021-03-30

Alleged gunman 'up to his neck' in David Douglas murder, State say

2021-03-30 · Convoy, Donegal · Special Criminal Court

A 31-year-old man accused of murdering Dublin businessman David Douglas five years ago was described by prosecutors as "up to his neck" in a meticulously planned killing. Lee Canavan, with an address in Dublin 14, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Mr...