The son of a man thought to have been abducted and murdered by a notorious Dublin criminal has been jailed for three years for robbery. The court was told William Corbally became a drug addict because he blamed himself for the disappearance and presumed death of his father, William "Jock" Corbally, whose body has never been recovered.
Corbally (25), Ballygall Parade, Finglas, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to a series of shop robberies involving variously a knife and a syringe on dates in October and November 1996.
Judge Cyril Kelly was handed a newspaper article naming Peter "P.J." Judge, as the person who ordered what the court was told was "a particularly nasty death" for the defendant's father.
Judge, nicknamed "Psycho" and "Judge Dread" in the Dublin underworld, was himself later shot dead, as was also another criminal, Mark Dwyer, who allegedly held down Corbally while his teeth were extracted with a pliers before he was shot.
Garda witnesses agreed with Mr Brendan Grehan, defending, that Corbally intervened some years ago in a row involving his son, and was abducted and, it is believed, killed as a result of that. This had an adverse affect on his son who became a drug addict as a result.