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

A Dublin man serving a life sentence for the 2016 murder of a business owner has launched an appeal against his conviction at the Court of Appeal. The defendant was found guilty in 2018 at the Special Criminal Court of involvement in the killing of a 55-year-old man, who was shot multiple times at a shop on Bridgefoot Street in the capital on 1 July 2016. The appeal centred on the reliability of CCTV evidence used…