Patrick ‘Dutchy’ Holland has died in a British prison where he was serving an eight year sentence for his role in a plot to kidnap a businessman and hold him to ransom for £10 million, reports the Irish Times.He was found dead in his cell in HMP Parkhurst at around 6am today and while a post-mortem has yet to be carried out, it appears that he died from natural causes. “As with all deaths in custody, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will conduct an investigation,” the UK prison service said in a statement.
Holland had been named in the Special Criminal Court in 1997 as the man whom gardaí believed shot Veronica Guerin but he has never been convicted of her murder. He lived much of his life in Dublin's north inner city and Finglas.
