Shamed ex-garda John ‘Spud’ Murphy is now housed within the Midlands Jail in a cell near a fellow disgraced garda officer.
ources have confirmed to the Sunday World that Murphy’s cell is on the E1 wing of the jail together with former garda Paul Moody.
Murphy (63) was sentenced to six-and-a-half years behind bars earlier this month after pleading responsible to possession of €260,000 price of hashish at his Dublin residence final yr, and is prone to face additional fees in relation to confidential data being handed onto the Hutch gang.
Paul Moody, one other ex-garda, was jailed for 3 years and three months over a four-year marketing campaign of harassment, threats, assaults and coercive management towards his cancer-stricken ex-partner.
The abuse got here to gentle when Moody voluntarily handed in his cell phone to gardaí after making a false allegation towards one of many girl’s kinfolk.
One other ex-garda on E-wing is Stephen Cooper (37), who acquired a six-year sentence earlier this yr for assaulting two ladies – together with one through which he inserted his fingers internally into his sufferer after accusing her of stealing his medication.
In 2014, he acquired a three-year sentence for offences when he was a serving garda.
One of many offences arose from his permitting one other man to be wrongfully prosecuted for possession of medicine discovered throughout a search on the Electrical Picnic music pageant in 2009.
Cooper was additionally charged with stealing a bag of hashish price €560 from Sundrive Garda Station on Could 27, 2010, however the cost was withdrawn by the prosecution.
Sources point out there are no less than two different ex-gardaí at the moment serving time for sexual offences who can’t be named to guard the anonymity of their victims.
Murphy was jailed earlier this month after being caught holding hashish resin price practically €260k.
Dublin Circuit Prison Courtroom heard that John Murphy (62) had constructed up monetary money owed of €855,000 attributable to poor enterprise selections made within the 10 years after he retired from the pressure.
Michael O’Higgins SC, defending, mentioned that Murphy had “regardless of the reverse of the Midas contact is” and that any investments he made “went down the drain”.
Counsel mentioned that Murphy was consuming giant quantities of alcohol day by day “for so long as anybody may keep in mind” and was a functioning alcoholic. He mentioned his ingesting had “clouded his judgement and introduced him to this sorry go”.
Sentencing him, Decide Martin Nolan mentioned that Murphy was holding the medication for some kind of monetary reward with a view to alleviate his money owed however that “he ought to have recognized higher”.
Murphy got here ahead to the circuit courtroom on signed responsible pleas entered at Dublin District Courtroom to an offence of possession on the market or provide of hashish at his residence in Clontarf, north Dublin on September 29, 2021.
Garda Inspector Brian Hanley from the Garda Nationwide Bureau of Prison Investigation informed Maddie Grant BL, prosecuting, that in September 2021, gardaí appearing on foot of confidential data obtained a warrant to go looking Murphy’s residence.
Through the search they discovered eight baggage of hashish herb in a bag within the walk-in wardrobe of an upstairs bed room. Seven vacuum packed baggage of hashish had been discovered hidden in a coal bunker behind the home and one other 5 baggage of hashish had been present in Murphy’s automobile.
The courtroom heard that CCTV footage was harvested from an industrial property in Co. Meath displaying Murphy gathering the luggage of hashish and placing them into his automobile.
