THE heartbroken father of a young man killed by a falling tree in a horrifying Storm Eowyn accident had been waiting for his son to return home after speaking to him on the phone.

Kacper Dudek’s devastated dad told a local priest after his son’s tragic death: “He never came home.”

Kacper, 20, tragically died near Raphoe, Co Donegal at around 5.30am on Friday after the horror incident struck during adverse weather conditions.

The 20-year-old was travelling home from his workplace at Zeus in Letterkenny at the time of the tragic incident.

Hundreds of mourners are expected to attend his funeral mass at St Patrick’s Church in Murlog, Lifford on Thursday morning.

Although a native of Poland, he was raised in the border town of Lifford.

Kacper, the beloved son of Artur and Katarzyna Dudek, was born in Brody before moving to Ireland with his family at a young age.

He was the eldest of three, and is mourned by his parents, his siblings, Karol and Weronika, and his girlfriend Molly.

He died shortly after meeting a roadblock caused by a fallen tree.

Kacper had turned his car around, only to be struck by another tree at Feddyglass, near Raphoe.

Father Michael McCaughey, who attended the tragic scene, spoke with Kacper’s heartbroken family yesterday.

Speaking to the Derry Journal, the priest said: “This young man was speaking to his father and within minutes he was dead.

“He apparently had come across a fallen tree. He had phoned his father, and father advised him to take a different route home. Then literally within minutes of the accident a tree fell on him.

“One of the tragic things was his father waited for him to come home, and his father said to me: ‘He never came home’.

“I found those words heartrending.”

TRAGEDY PROBE

A full Garda investigation into the tragedy is still ongoing.

Hundreds of tributes have been paid to the tragic young man with many calling him a gentle soul.

Kacper remains will repose at his home in Lifford from 4pm on Tuesday.

His funeral mass will take place at 10:30am in St Patrick`s Church, Murlog, Lifford before a cremation afterwards in Lakelands Crematorium.

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OLIVIA ATTWOOD has never been afraid to push the boundaries for her award-winning series Getting Filthy Rich.

But the presenter has admitted that outrageous OnlyFans girl Bonnie Blue could be where she draws the line.

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Olivia Attwood won’t be having Bonnie Blue on her series Getting Filthy Rich[/caption]

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Olivia is back with a third series of the ITV2 documentary which delves into the sex industry.

And since the show’s first outing, in 2022, saucy platform OnlyFans has exploded — with Bonnie front and centre.

The X-rated star has become infamous for stunts like bedding “barely legal” university freshers and sleeping with 1,057 men in 12 hours.

Olivia said: “Bonnie is not on the show because the series was filmed before any of this came to light.

“But I think the special thing about Getting Filthy Rich is that we represent the sex industry in a balanced way, without bias.

“And I think you have to be careful — it feels potentially like it’s something I would be nervous about giving a platform to.

“I think what she’s advertising is quite dangerous.

“And it’s actually potentially quite harmful for the sex worker community.

“It could be undoing a lot of hard work that’s been done to break down the stigma about sex workers.

“I’d have to look into it a lot deeper to know whether I’d want it to feature on our shows or not.”

Olivia would be keen to dig into the flipside of the story, though — the men who take part in Bonnie’s stunts.

She added: “There’s not much focus on the men signing up for this.

“Who are they?

“Why are they doing this?

“Do their families know

“There’s so many questions.”

As part of series three, Olivia will meet other super-successful OnlyFans stars who, like Bonnie and fellow headline-grabber Lily Phillips, are cashing in on the platform, with some earning up to £120k a month.

Elsewhere she explores the niche services on offer from giantesses to saucy 70-year-old grans, plus women getting down and dirty with food.

Olivia gets hands-on with the subject matter too by trying out costume play — even roping in footballer hubby Bradley Dack.

In one scene, she dresses as a witch while he is wizard Harry Potter.

Olivia added: “I naively always go in thinking I’ve seen so much, like am I even really shocked any more?

‘LEARNING CURVE’

“And every day it’s a shock and it’s a learning curve.

“I’m like a sponge soaking up the knowledge.

“I love making the show, it’s my obsession.

“In my dreams, Louis Theroux watches and he goes, ‘Oh my God, this Liv, she’s great’ — that’s probably my fantasy!”

• Olivia Attwood: Getting Filthy Rich returns on Sunday at 10:05pm on ITV2 and ITVX.

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Olivia dresses as a witch while her husband Bradley Deck is wizard Harry Potter[/caption]

DARA’S A LAVA LOVER

HE’S explored space and Ancient Egypt for Channel 5 – and now comic Dara O Briain is getting fired up about volcanoes.

A two-part documentary will see the Mock The Week host head to Italy to get up close and personal with the ‘Lighthouse of the Med’ Mount Stromboli, and Mounts Etna and Vesuvius.

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But it’s not all about hard work as Volcano with Dara O Briain which is currently in the works, will also see him enjoying the highlights of the surrounding cities, and the delicious food they offer.

Dara said: “I got to clamber up the side of live volcanoes, and watch plumes of lava explode into the air.

“Then we drank wine from volcanic soil, ate the best pizza in the world and learned how to love life, under the shadow of destruction.

“Who said geology was just rocks!”

LACEY’S JUST GOT STARTED

LACEY TURNER’s first We Started Here podcast has dropped with the actress talking to her EastEnders co-star Jessie Wallace.

But I can reveal the actress – who played Stacey Slater in the BBC One soap – has lined up a host of other soap talents for a chat, with a different helping being available every Tuesday on all podcast platforms.

Other people set to appear include Cracker and Time writer Jimmy McGovern, who once penned episodes of Channel 4’s Brookside; former Hollyoaks hunk Ricky Whittle; Sarah Phelps, who was an EastEnders writer, and actress Mandip Gill who was in Doctors and Casualty.

I’m sure that’s almost everyone in soapland covered . . . 

CHERYL’S FINE AND MANDY

EASTENDERS legend Cheyl Ferguson is joining the cast of BBC comedy Mandy.

She will play a new character in the upcoming fourth series, which stars Diane Morgan as the jobless and disastrous protagonist Mandy Carter.

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Diane Morgan in BBC Two’s Mandy[/caption]

She will appear alongside Breeders star Joanna Bacon, Peter Key’s Car Share actress Sian Gibson, The Power Of Parker’s Rosie Cavaliero and Things You Should Have Done’s Jamie Bisping in the new cast.

The show will also see the return of Michelle Greenidge as Mandy’s best friend and salon owner Lola, and Tom Basden as the pesky benefits officer.

A teaser reveals: “Mandy continues to live hand-to-wonky-mouth, cooking up enough dodgy side hustles and trashy cash hacks to hopefully climb up into the squeezed middle.”

The six new episodes are currently filming and will air on BBC Two.

THE mother of Gareth Hutch says his murder caused the “destruction of a family and a future that can never be reclaimed” as a Kinahan cartel thug was sent down for life.

Heartbroken Vera Hutch’s powerful victim impact ­statement was delivered as ruthless assassin Thomas ‘Nicky’ McConnell sat emotionless in the dock at Dublin’s Special Criminal Court.

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Minutes after 39-year-old McConnell was taken away, Vera was flanked by her children as she declared they had got justice for her boy.

But she also revealed how Gareth’s son has been left struggling with his dad’s loss.

Emotional Vera said: “Gareth was a good fella, he worked, he didn’t mind anyone.

“He adored his son, the little fella misses him something terrible.

“It won’t bring him back, we got justice for him today.

“I have to thank all the gardai for all the work they put into it, they were very good, it’s all over now.”

McConnell, who was also a person of interest in the murder of Real IRA boss Vincent Ryan, was handed down the mandatory life sentence by Mr Justice Alexander Owens over the callous murder of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch’s nephew in 2016 after he was convicted in December.

The sentencing hearing of McConnell – who had 105 previous convictions – heard how he had fled to Turkey and was extradited on foot of a European Arrest Warrant in July 2020.

He is the fourth person to be convicted of murder in relation to Hutch’s killing, with siblings Jonathan and Regina Keogh along with Thomas ‘Tossy’ Fox already serving life behind bars.

In a victim impact statement delivered in court by Detective Garda Raymond Lee on Vera’s behalf, she told how she had the “privilege” of being Gareth’s mum for over 35 years before he was “senselessly and cruelly” taken from her.

Vera said: “Losing Gareth has caused my heart and all our families’ hearts to be broken, nothing can ever repair the emptiness that his death has caused.

“Losing my child has caused overwhelming grief.

“Since I received the devastating news that my son Gareth was murdered, I have not known a moment’s peace.

“My chest has a constant ache and a pain that never goes away. Sometimes it feels like the world has stopped, as if time itself has become meaningless because Gareth is no longer here. I battle everyday just to keep going.

HEARTBREAKING REQUEST

“The emotional scars left by this senseless and callous crime is something both myself and my family carry with us constantly.”

Vera told how Gareth’s life revolved around his son who he “adored”, but the dreams, plans and future for them was “stolen” in an instant and the boy’s mental health has been impacted.

She said it is heartbreaking as Gareth’s son’s nanny that she has to watch him in grief but can’t help him, adding: “He constantly asks me to bring his daddy back for him.”

Vera’s husband John Hutch – a brother of The Monk – survived a Kinahan cartel assassination attempt by gunman Michael Carroll which was witnessed by her at their home in Drumalee Avenue, Dublin, in September 2016.

‘HEARTBROKEN BEYOND REPAIR’

But he tragically died in an accident in the house three years later.

Describing the impact it had on John, Vera explained: “My husband Johnny, Gareth’s dad who has since passed away, was heartbroken beyond repair. He lost his son and his best friend.”

Vera said that Gareth’s loss is still felt in the community of Dublin’s north inner city and that his murder shattered the “sense of security and peace” there.

Vera added: “This was not the loss of a young life, it was the destruction of a family and a future that can never be reclaimed.”

FEUD TARGET

Hutch was targeted at the height of the feud and had written a letter which he never got to deliver to Dublin City Council requesting to move flats for safety reasons.

He emerged from his flat at Avondale House at 9:53am on the morning of May 24, 2016 and placed a jacket into the backseat of his Volkswagen Passat.

Two hooded men appeared and Hutch never even got to turn around and look at them as he was shot four times – two to the back of his neck, one to his one to his lower back and another to his chest.

McConnell’s trial heard that he and Jonathan Keogh had used an apartment opposite Hutch’s home as a lookout spot.

‘WE ARE ON’

When their target emerged, McConnell said “we are on” before emerging and blasting Hutch to death.

McConnell and Keogh flung their guns – two semi-automatic Makarov 9mm guns of Russian origin and fitted with silencers – away at the scene.

A BMW they had parked there as their getaway car choked out and the two men fled on foot to nearby Champions Avenue where McConnell drove a Skoda Octavia away.

Keogh got out on foot in Summerhill before McConnell burned the car out in Finglas.

DATA LINK

McConnell was convicted after a court relied on phone data linking him to other plotters in the murder, along with CCTV that linked him with cars used and the lies he had told gardai that were indicative of guilt.

McConnell’s gun was found to have the safety catch on and did not fire any rounds during the assassination, with Keogh being the triggerman.

“This was not the loss of a young life, it was the destruction of a family and a future that can never be reclaimed.”

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However the Special Criminal court found that even if he did that purposely, his other actions in preparation for the shooting highlighted that he was part of a common design with Keogh and others to commit murder and his actions were intended to result in Mr Hutch’s death.

The court established that McConnell had parked the black BMW in front of Avondale House with the intention of using it as the getaway car.

‘INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE’

Inside the gardai found his DNA, a can of petrol and two changes of clothes which the prosecution said shows it was the getaway car.

McConnell told gardai he had sold the BMW to a man who looked similar to himself and Mr Justice Owens found that this “yarn” from him was to hide his role in the killing.

The court relied on other lies and emailed on a phone linked to McConnell which proved he had an “intimate knowledge of the murder”.

Speaking after the sentencing, Detective Superintendent Colm Murphy told how McConnell’s sentence is “another indication” of the gardai’s determination in combating organised and serious crime.

JUSTICE SERVED

The senior officer said: “This is the fourth individual that has been convicted of the murder of Gareth Hutch. Gareth was murdered callously on May 24, 2016 in broad daylight.

“He was murdered that morning while people went about their business in a quiet residential community.

“I want to take this opportunity to thank the community of the north inner city for their support and commitment during the course of the investigation.

“I would also like to thank the many people who gave evidence during the course of this trial and the previous trial.

“I want to express my gratitude to the investigation team who are based at Mountjoy Garda Station for their tireless efforts, commitment, resilience and dedication to duty over the past almost nine years.

“My chest has a constant ache and a pain that never goes away. Sometimes it feels like the world has stopped, as if time itself has become meaningless because Gareth is no longer here. I battle everyday just to keep going.”

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“I also want to take this opportunity to remember the Hutch family, their loss and the devastation that has caused to them following the murder of Gareth.”

Det Supt Murphy said that beyond this case, many others have been convicted in relation to the feud and added: “I want to reassure the public that we will go to every effort to bring those who are involved in any way, shape or form in committing any of these offences, that they will be brought to justice.”

OLIVIA Attwood has opened up on her latest series of Getting Filthy Rich, and revealed what her husband Bradley Dack really thinks of the show.

The 33-year-old is going to delve even deeper into the adult industry for her balsy third series, and immerses herself in the world of financial domination, adult cosplay, the boyfriend experience and meets the OnlyFans top one percent earning up to $150,000 a month.

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Olivia Attwood has opened up on her latest series of Getting Filthy Rich[/caption]

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Olivia and Bradley have been married since 2023[/caption]

Love Island star-turned-presenter Olivia has been left gobsmacked by some of the things she’s seen during filming in the past – including a gigantic penis replica.

And Olivia, who says she’s “pretty boring” in her own sex life, tells The Sun that husband Bradley thinks she’s “insane” for doing the show.

She said: “He thinks I’m crazy. I’ll ring him when I’m filming and be like ‘oh my God, you’ll never guess what I said today.’

“He genuinely thinks I’m on the wind up, and as soon as I get clips and edits from the rushes I’m like ‘I told you I saw this.’

“And he’s like ‘what?’ because he actually doesn’t normally believe me until he actually sees it, and when I say it out loud, some of the things sound insane.”

Olivia continued: “He’ll say to me ‘how are you just sitting there? I couldn’t watch that in person.’

“And that’s why I tell him that it’s my show and not his.”

In series three, Olivia is embarking on even more surprising services – from Giantesses to ‘MILFS’ and ‘GILFS’ making erotic content.

And even she finds it shocking, despite having fronted two series already.

Olivia said: “I was arrogant thinking nothing can shock me anymore because I’ve seen so much, but I was completely wrong.

“I think that this is probably the most X rated series so far and I think it’s the most shocking.

“I think it’s going to create the most conversation out of all the series, and I was literally quite speechless some days.”

Olivia’s approach to film-making saw the first of the ITV2 series bag a prestigious Broadcast Award after she joined Only Fans and even had a clothed, walk-on role in a porn film.

But stripping off has really pushed the boundaries at home for Olivia before.

The blonde beauty previously told us: “Brad would never say to me don’t do something, because that’s just not how this household runs, as I’m sure you lot can imagine.

“But he was like, as your fiance I hate that.

“I hate the fact that there’ll be men in there looking at you in your underwear.

“And I was like, but do you understand that I feel like I have to do this to get experience of this?

“It would be so easy for me to stand on the side and be like, oh yeah, this is what it’s like.”

Understanding Brad came round to her way of thinking.

She went on: “A couple of days before when I got really nervous, I was like I don’t know if I could actually do this.

“He actually then turned, and was like ‘you can do this.

“It’s gonna be great, it’s going to give you such insight, you’re gonna feel like you learnt so much from doing it.

“Remember the reason why you’re doing it’.

“He said ‘It’s not really about you, if you can’t dance and people don’t think you’re sexy it doesn’t matter because it’s not your day job, you’re doing it to find out what it feels like’.

“So yes, he was very supportive.

“I would hope that he would tell me if he was gonna go somewhere and dance around his underwear. So I get it.”

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FILMING has begun on the new series of a cult comedy favourite and fans will see a familiar face amongst the cast.

Mandy, directed and starring Diane Morgan, first hit our screens in 2020 after a successful pilot episode.

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The BBC have confirmed filming for series four of Mandy has now begun[/caption]

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It follows the misadventures of, as the title suggests, Mandy and her life on the dole with her mate and Salon owner Lola, played by Michelle Greenidge.

Mandy finds herself constantly looking for work, either due to her own chronic lethargy or a series of disasters that seem to thwart her at every turn.

In previous series we’ve seen her foil a mid-air bomb plot whilst working as an air steward and being attacked in church, by flocks of birds like an Alfred Hitchcock film.

Even when she lands her dream job as a taster at a biscuit factory, disaster looms and she manages to slip on her own vomit, fall down several flights of stairs and then out of an open window.

The series is bizarre at times and known for its many celebrity cameos squeezed in to the short episodes. Graham Norton, Micheala Strachan and Deborah Meaden have all appeared as themselves.

But fans of the show will see another familiar face in series four as Cheryl Fergison, who played the iconic Heather in EastEnders will be joining the cast.

When asked about the recommission the show’s iconic creator Diane was in typical form saying: “I couldn’t be more thrilled to be asked to provide a quote for a press release that tells people how thrilled I am that the BBC is bringing back Mandy.

“However I am too busy writing, directing and starring in the show to come up with anything, so I’ve asked someone else to write it. They are thrilled.”

The Director of Comedy at the BBC, Jon Petrie, had a little more to add saying: “Series 3 saw Mandy save a plane from a terrorist attack, commit mass murder with a blowpipe, and get fired from a biscuit factory.

“Mandy gets bigger, bolder, and more brilliantly absurd with every series—and we’re here for every hilarious moment of Diane Morgan’s brilliant creation.”

Previously Diane has spoken about her broad appeal and what makes Mandy resonate with viewers. She said: “Sometimes people come up to me in the street to say hello and I think I can always guess what they like me from.

“If it’s a man in his 40s it’ll be Charlie Brooker stuff – Philomena Cunk. If it’s a woman with a pram it’ll be Motherland, and if it’s a gay man or a hen party from Manchester it’ll be Mandy.

“Mandy seems to have the broadest appeal of all the shows I’ve done. Mums and daughters watch it together. Lots of people say it helps them get over a bad day by watching someone have an even worse one.”

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All three previous series of Mandy are available to watch on the BBC Iplayer.  

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