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THE FAT FARM

It's Puss in wellie boots as Bradley gets down 'n' dirty

THIS is robbery suspect and part-time farmer Alan 'Fatpuss' Bradley enjoying the good life as he feeds chickens on his new farm.

Bradley (35) has gone back-to-basics and has set up a menagerie outside his home in Kentstown, Co Meath.

These exclusive images show Farmpuss decked out in rubber wellies as he heads down to feed his beloved birds.

Bradley, has fenced off an area of land in front of his home in the Churchfields estate. The Finglas-born "horse trader" is using the enclosed area to raise 12 chickens, a rooster, a goat and a number of geese.

Later this year, Alan (35) and his younger brother Wayne (30) will go on trial in connection with an alleged plot to rob a security van in November 2007.

They are charged with conspiracy to commit a crime over the €1million theft from a Tesco car park in Celbridge, Co Kildare.

Busy

But while he waits for his day in court, Bradley has been busy getting back to nature with his small farm. Fatpuss has been living in the quiet country village with his partner, Orla, and their kids since in 2002.

And, just like in the 70s BBC sitcom 'The Good Life', Bradley has swapped the rat-race for a life of self-sufficiency in the country.

One local told the Sunday World that Fatpuss take his role as part-time farmer very seriously.

"He has a good few animals fenced off with chicken wire in a ten-metre space.

"You can see him there everyday in his wellies feeding the animals. He takes it all very seriously.

"I doubt he would make a fortune from it all, I think it is a self sufficiency thing."

Last July, the Bradley brothers hit the headlines after they were denied free legal aid for their upcoming trial for armed robbery. The court heard how the pair had both recently bought new BMW X5s just months after they were charged with conspiracy to commit an armed robbery.

The Bradleys had claimed they could not afford lawyers for their six-week trial. But Judge O'Donnell said he believed the Bradleys had failed to fully disclose all their earnings to the court.

"There must have been other income not disclosed to me," he said. The court heard that Fatpuss owns two properties and three horses as well as his BMW but when asked what "means he had to pay legal fees", he replied "nil."

Accident

Under cross-examination, Bradley admitted he owed €180,000 in taxes on income he earned between 1994 and 2004, but could not explain where the money was that had given rise to that liability.

During the hearing in Dublin Circuit Court, Wayne Bradley said he managed to buy his BMW by trading in an older model, which had been gifted to him by unidentified "benefactor."

His trade-in was valued at €40,000 by the car dealership and he made up the rest by selling another car and taking out a loan for
€40,000. He said that the car was now valued at €35,000 after being involved in a accident last November.

Judge O'Donnell said that he had "difficulty with gifts and that sort of thing".

Leaving court, the Bradley brothers posed wearing T-shirts promoting the Escape Fest in Fairyhouse in Co Kildare.

Festival promoter Gar Hogan later claimed Fatpuss had nothing to do with the rave festival, insisting that he must have got the t-shirts from their website.

But at Escape Fest, Fatpuss was snapped by the Sunday World DJ-ing in front of 3,000 music fans at the Kildare racecourse.

He was pictured with a bottle of vodka and can of Red Bull on the mixing desk as he played his set.

Fatpuss' Dj set at Escape was not the first time he has taken to the stage. In 2008, he made a bid for muscle-bound glory in the Mr Ireland bodybuilding competition.

The formerly chubby "businessman" stunned pals by shedding up to two stone for the contest. During the competition in the Olympia Theatre, Bradley was photographed pulling poses while wearing tight Speedo-style briefs and fake tan.

Fatpuss flexed and stretched his way through his allocated 90 seconds to a thumping rock soundtrack. He was cheered on by his supporters in the crowd who could be heard shouting, "Go on Alan."

But Fatpuss failed to impress the judges in the 'first timer' category, and was dubbed 'Flop Puss' by the media.

Speaking to Hot Press last year, Bradley blasted the media for slagging him off.

Disgrace

He said: "It was an achievement to get my body like that. People wouldn't believe half the s**t you go through to get into this condition.

"But they put 'Fit Puss Flops'. That was a disgrace."

The Bradley brothers are among five men accused of involvement in a security van heist in Celbridge, Co Kildare, on Friday, November 2, 2007.

Michael Ryan (34) of Carton Drive, Poppintree, Ballymun; Joseph Warren (25) of Belclare Crescent, Ballymun; and Eamon Dunne (31) from Dunsoughly Drive, Ratoath Road, Finglas, are charged with conspiring to commit theft of cash.

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