'WHAT WAS IN THE COKE?'
Wolf's plea to dealer BEFORE 999 call as tragic Katy lay dying
KIERON 'Wolf' Ducie phoned THIS drug dealer as Katy French lay dying in his car, and demanded to know: "What was in the cocaine?"
Today for the first time, the Sunday World can reveal that coke dealer Russell Memery was the FIRST person Ducie called BEFORE he dialled 999 on the night the tragic model died.
This week, the 24-year-old from Meath pleaded guilty to supplying the cocaine that cost socialite Katy her life.
He has revealed how party animal Ducie frantically quizzed him about the drugs he had supplied as he rushed dying Katy to hospital.
A Sunday World investigation has uncovered how Ducie and his girlfriend Ann Corcoran made SIX calls to Memery after Katy collapsed in their Co. Meath home in December 2007.
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Wolfman phoned this coke dealer BEFORE he dialled 999 as he brought dying Katy French to the hospital
DUCIE WARNED PAL MEMERY TO 'DENY, DENY, DENY' WHEN QUIZZED BY GARDAI
THIS is the drug dealer Kieron 'Wolf' Ducie phoned as he drove dying model Katy French to hospital and BEFORE he dialled 999.
Russell Memery has told officers investigating her death that Ducie asked him 'what was in the cocaine' as Katy lay unconscious and foaming at the mouth in the back of his jeep.
Phone records show how Ducie had called Memery shortly before midnight the previous night, sparking a flurry of calls between the drug dealer, Ducie's then girlfriend Ann Corcoran and the model, as she made her way to his home in Kilmessan.
He claims that Ducie wanted €200 worth of cocaine and that arrangements were then made with Corcoran for the handover of the drugs to Katy at a Service Station in Dunboyne.
The revelations cast further suspicion over the role of Ducie in Katy's death and link him with a self-confessed coke dealer, despite his insistence that he has nothing to do with drugs.
Cocaine
Ducie has constantly denied that Katy French took cocaine at his home, insisting that she collapsed after a drinking binge, despite the fact that no alcohol was found in her system.
Memery has also told investigators that Ducie threatened him after the model's funeral to 'Deny, deny, deny' if the gardai asked him any questions.
The 24-year-old pleaded guilty this week to conspiring to possess a controlled drug for sale or supply at Trim Circuit Court in Meath.
He admitted to conspiring with persons not before the court to possessing the drug for the purpose of selling or supplying it to another.
He said he committed the offence between 11pm on December 1 and 3am on December 2 in 2007 at the Statoil Service Station in Bracetown, Clonee, County Meath.
He was remanded on continuing bail by Judge Donagh McDonagh until the next sitting of the court and is, to date, the only person prosecuted by the DPP in connection with Katy's death.
Today the Sunday World can reveal how a call from Ducie to the self-confessed coke dealer, which lasted less than two minutes, kicked off the events that led to the model's shocking death.
Following his call, a series of phonecalls were made between Memery, Ann Corcoran and Katy French, as the model drove towards Meath.
It is understood that arrangements were made for Katy to meet Memery at the petrol station where he sold the drugs to her.
She then made her way to Ducie's home where she stayed up all night with Corcoran. Ducie and Corcoran have insisted to Gardai that Katy drank a concoction of champagne and vodka with red bull and took no drugs before she went to bed in a downstairs room and collapsed onto the floor.
Both have stuck to their stories and insisted they acted immediately once she began to have seizures. Gardai believe an hour-and-three-quarters lapsed before they left their home at Lambertstown Manor.
But medics at the hospital quickly became concerned that both Ducie and Corcoran had insisted that Katy had consumed copious amounts of alcohol, when she had in fact tested positive for cocaine and had a negligible amount of booze in her system.
Despite his claims, Ducie's pals say he is a known cocaine user and was even seen snorting the white powder hours before Katy fell into a coma. It is not known whether it was the cocaine supplied by Memery which resulted in her death or if she obtained a last fatal dose in the early hours of the morning in Ducie's home.
The Sunday World can reveal that it was Katy's dad John who initially contacted the gardai about the suspicious nature of her arrival at Our Lady's Hospital in Navan. It was that which sparked the investigation into her death.
He phoned officers as he and ex-wife Janet and Katy's sister, Jill, carried out a bedside vigil for his daughter on the morning of December 4th - two days after she was brought to the hospital.
Two nights later, officers searched Ducie's home but found no drugs or trace of them anywhere on the property. Ducie was arrested in February 2008 but denied ordering drugs from Memery or having anything to do with drugs.
But it is believed that Memery has claimed that he was a regular supplier of cocaine to Ducie. He has also claimed that Ducie threatened him to get his story straight about the call he made to him and urged him to tell officers it was a work related chat.
Habit
In an interview shortly before her death, Katy admitted she had taken cocaine in the past but claimed she had kicked the habit.
"Coke is no longer an elitist drug. It is not specific to a certain social group or class. It's around me with people on the scene and it is one of the main reasons I don't go out very often. Ask anyone on the Dublin social scene and they'll tell you it's as easy getting a pint."
Last year the Sunday World revealed how her ex-boyfriend, Marcus Sweeney told cops she had an insatiable appetite for the drug
and called it 'Daz Automatic'. He said their life became so dangerous he had to get a gun to protect them from dealers to whom they
owed money.
He also said that Katy had a serious cocaine habit when they met and the it was she who introduced him to the drug.
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