Dead killer’s jail pals send his family gift
PRISONERS have sent a teddy bear and cushion tribute to the family of dead murderer Bernard Fogarty.
Jail pals of the late killer, who was found dead in unexplained circumstances in his cell in Portlaoise Prison earlier this month, sent the presents to a relative ahead of his upcoming funeral service.
The cushion reads: “Bernard see you on the other side. All the boys in Portlaoise.”
A family member of Fogarty posted the photos publicly to social media and said: “Thank you to all the lads in Portlaoise for doing this for me.
“Still waiting on more that they have done for me. I love them.”
The tributes come as separate investigations by the Irish Prison Service, Inspector of Prisons and An Garda Siochana into the death of Fogarty continue.
As this paper recently revealed, he was discovered unresponsive in his cell on January 4 lying next to what is suspected to have been a bottle of illicit hooch.
Officers suspect he may have taken it with a combination of drugs, leading to his death. Sources say
Fogarty gardai have the bottle in their possession and it was being sent for analysis while a postmortem took place on the body.
Sources also say the discovery comes after a seizure of a significant quantity of hooch in Portlaoise Prison over the Christmas period.
Notorious gangland figure Fogarty was serving a life sentence for his role in the murder of father-of-eight Barry Wolverson, who died a year after he was shot by the thug in a yard in Swords, North Co Dublin, in January 2020.
Fogarty carried out the ruthless crime along with another infamous criminal, Robert “Roo” Redmond, who was also convicted of the murder. The pair had originally been charged before the Special Criminal Court with the attempted murder of Mr Wolverson, who died on February 21, 2021, after a 13-month stay in hospital in a comatose state.
Recently he was sentenced to another 15 years in prison for attempting to kill another man, Mark Ivers, who he shot in the leg and abdomen months before the shooting of Mr Wolverson.