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Paul Healy

Family of man stabbed to death in Crumlin 'broken forever'

A stepdaughter of a man stabbed to death by his son has said her family has been “forever broken” over their loss.

Gerry Fortune, 62, was attacked while watching the All-Ireland hurling final in his home in Rutland Grove in Crumlin, Dublin, on August 19, 2018. Speaking exclusively on the fourth anniversary of his tragic death, his stepdaughter Eileen said her family has been completely destroyed by his loss.

She added: “We’re basically broken forever. Our family is left with a void that will never be replaced, a hole that will never be filled.

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“It’s so hard to know that he was such a good man and he had so many dreams. He had the next 20 years planned of what he was going to do.

“Now he’s gone. He’s been robbed of all those dreams that he still hadn’t finished.”

Last year David Fortune, 33, who was already a convicted killer, was jailed for 12 years for the manslaughter of his father. Speaking as the family visited her father’s grave yesterday, Eileen said he had been robbed of his life.

She added: “We can never accept it. I know I will never accept it.

"How could you accept something like this? At the end of the day he was our rock and now our rock is gone.”

Last year during sentencing, Ms Justice Eileen Creedon noted it was his second conviction for manslaughter with a knife.

He was jailed for eight years in 2006 when he fatally stabbed Michael Murphy, 36, in Blanchardstown, Dublin, on October 31, 2004.

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