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Crime World

Hit podcast about criminals, drugs and the sins of the underworld - now with further in-depth investigations and exclusive insights at our new website crimeworld.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 616: Dessie 'Border Fox' O'Hare released from...

Crime World ·

2024/07/03

Border Fox Dessie O’Hare has walked free from Portlaoise Prison where he has served a six-year sentence for kidnap.But what next for the 67-year-old notorious terrorist who has been linked to more than 30 murders and who has a long history of violence?Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about the future prospects of the yoga-loving criminal whose reputation has long gone before him. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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23:40

Episode 615: Gangster turned ‘Psychic Surgeon’ Gareth...

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2024/07/02

A spiritual healer or a psychic spoofer? Has convicted criminal Gareth Quinn found his true calling or is he just on the make.Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about the armed robber turned healer who promises to help the sick. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 614: Raymond Shorten victims give impact...

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2024/07/01

50-year-old taxi driver Raymond Shorten who targeted vulnerable women on their way home at night will be sentenced later this month for rape.Today Shorten listened as two victim impact statements were read to a court and a Judge heard that he has already been convicted of other serious sexual offences.Crime World’s Clodagh Meaney was at the Central Criminal Court to hear the proceedings and today she talks to Nicola about the impact his crimes have had on his victims. Hosted on Acast. See

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Episode 613: Former FBI Counterintelligence agent...

Crime World ·

2024/07/01

The former deputy head of counterintelligence at the FBI, Frank Figliuzzi has spent his life tracking down spies and keeping some of America’s biggest secrets.Following his retirement from the bureau he began investigating a very specific type of serial killer - long-haul truckers.His new book, Long Haul, Frank takes to the road as he delves into profiling the suspects in a series of serial killings in which the victims were found adjacent to highways across the United states.Speaking to Clodagh

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Episode 612: Home of James 'Mago' Gately declared...

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2024/06/28

James ‘Mago’ Gately’s luxury Dublin home has been declared as ‘overwhelmingly’ the proceeds of crime in the High Court.Gately, described as a key figure of the Hutch organised Crime Group, and his partner Charlene Lam lived an exotic lifestyle funded by criminal cash Judge Alex Owen’s said.Nicola speaks with Eamon Dillon about the proceeds of crime case and the house at the centre of it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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27:43

Episode 611: The burglary gang behind viral...

Crime World ·

2024/06/27

A relation of infamous gang boss “Fat” Andy Connors has admitted leading Gardai on an hour-long pursuit that ended in a spectacular crash that went viral on social media.William Connors and four other younger men were lucky to escape serious injury when their stolen Audi Q5 smashed into a roundabout and flipped into a supermarket car park back in April 2022.Nicola speaks with Eamon Dillon about the frightening high-speed chase and the burglary gang behind it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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Episode 610: Suspected killer at centre of plot to...

Crime World ·

2024/06/26

A Tayto bag tossed in a trash bin, a deft move by a murder suspect who believed he’d covered a camera and an insight into how contraband makes its way into our prison systems.Nicola chats with Niall Donald about how prison staff nabbed inmate Nicky McConnell and his cunning plan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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40:55

REPOST: The life and crimes of Kinahan hitman Imre...

Crime World ·

2024/06/25

***This episode was originally broadcast in June 2022***A survivor of the Cold War and of the notorious Russian Gulags, Imre Arakas was an international hitman who washed up on our shores like a character dreamed up in a work of fiction. His paymaster for this trip was Daniel Kinahan, the son of Christy Kinahan Snr and director general of the Irish mafia on the Costa Del Sol where Arakas lived. He’d worked for them before and he’d always been paid swiftly and efficiently on completion of a job He’d

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Episode 609: Kinahan hitman Imre Arakas to face two...

Crime World ·

2024/06/25

International hitman Imre Arakas is facing two murder trials in Lithuania and a court has heard that he is accused of killing of an MMA fighter as well as a celebrity gangster.Arakas who served time in Ireland for conspiracy to murder Hutch associate James ‘Mago’ Gately has continued to give interviews behind bars denying any involvement in serious crime.Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about the suspected cold-blooded killer who moonlights as a fisherman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for

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Episode 608: The CAB case against Longford gangster...

Crime World ·

2024/06/24

A chop shop and a luxury boom boom bar formed the focus of a proceeds of crime case taken against Longford gangster Blondie Stokes.And now the father of seven is set to lose his home after a Judge said there was no explanation for the source of money spent on extensive renovations at the property.Nicola speaks to Eamon Dillon about the chop shop boss that has come a cropper. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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26:30

Episode 607: Inside the world's largest crime...

Crime World ·

2024/06/22

Crime World Producer Clodagh Meaney has just returned from the world’s biggest criminal get-together in Nashville in the US where she found someone with a story to tell everywhere she turned.Clodagh tells Nicola and Niall about her experience at Crime Con which attracted 6,000 visitors and where she found TV detectives, high profile crime victims and even a US version of our own silver fox Niall Donald. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 606: The killing of Michael ‘Chino’ Ryan

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2024/06/21

A man who once went on a botched one million euro cash in transit robbery with slain mobster Eamon 'The Don' Dunne and the Bradley brothers Alan and Wayne has been stabbed to death.Michael 'Chino' Ryan was 51 when he died last week in Dublin in what's believed to have been a drunken brawl.Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the murder and about the career of the one-time gangland heavy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 605: The life and crimes of Nathan Kinsella

Crime World ·

2024/06/21

Real IRA man Nathan Kinsella told cops that he had a millionaire pal who gifted him hundreds of thousands of euro while he was on the dole and that he didn’t believe there was anything ‘dodgy in it.The former pal of murdered Alan Ryan pleaded guilty to failure to pay Capital Acquisitions Tax from the years 2018 through to 2020 relating to almost half a million euro which went through three bank accounts.So who is Nathan Kinsella and what are his links to the one-time heir to Ireland’s greatest

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Episode 604: Killer Yousef Palani hospitalises prison...

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2024/06/20

Serial killer Yousef Palani has attacked a prison officer in Portlaoise jail and will now be controlled by controversial barrier handling while moving about the prison.Palani, who came to Ireland from Iraq, murdered two men and attacked another during a killing spree spurred by his hatred of homosexuality.Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about Palani and the crimes that mean he has been locked up for life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 603: The crimes of Dublin taxi driver Raymond...

Crime World ·

2024/06/19

Taxi driver Raymond Shorten is to be sentenced after his conviction for rape and anal rape of two women who he picked up while they were drunk and attacked them in his car.The predatory behaviour of Shorten saw him trawl nightclubs looking for drunk women and even go out of his way to pull up as they stumbled along pavements trying to ring for lifts home.Now his brave daughter Nikita has taken to social media to denounce her father’s actions and to support the women who gave evidence against

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Episode 602: Raffaele Imperiale spills secrets of...

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2024/06/18

Supergrass Raffaele Imperiale has been speaking with Dutch police in relation to his former associate El Rico and what he claims are his links to a murderous underworld feud, leaked documents show.The Camorra Mafiosa who was arrested in Dubai and returned to Italy two years ago turned state witness as he faced a lengthy time in jail.The one time member of the European Super Cartel has also told Dutch police that Daniel Kinahan refused to sanction a murder plot in Dubai which has been his safe haven

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Episode 601: Notorious criminal Leroy Dumbrell Roche

Crime World ·

2024/06/17

Notorious criminal Leroy Dumbrell Roche has been jailed again notching up his 82nd conviction this time for an assault.He will rejoin his brothers Geoffrey and Warren both serving life sentences for murder as he settles down once more to a prison term.So who is Leroy Dumbrell and why have his brothers made his one of the most notorious criminal families in the State.Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about the life and times of the Dumbrell brothers from the notorious Mountjoy Siege to meditation session

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Episode 600: New IRA leader Thomas Ashe Mellon...

Crime World ·

2024/06/15

New IRA leader Thomas Ashe Mellon found himself arrested by police over the border this week hours after he failed an explosives test when he went to visit inmates in the Republic’s high security Portlaoise Jail. So what was Mellon doing meeting with the New IRA’s southern command with the permission of Northern Ireland’s courts and in the company of the respected Fianna Fáil TD Eamon O’Cuiv.Nicola speaks with her colleague Allison Morris about the future of the New IRA and hopes that they may be

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Episode 599: 3 women sentenced for their role in...

Crime World ·

2024/06/14

Three women who admitted helping evil Jonathan Cresswell cover up details around the death of showjumper Katie Simpson were handed down suspended prison sentences today.Hayley Robb, Jill Robinson and Rose De Montmorency Wright each believed that Katie had taken her own life and had not been murdered when they helped Cresswell wash his clothing and hide the fact he had assaulted the 21-year-old in the hours before her death.At Derry Magistrates Court journalist Ciaran O’Neill watched as the three

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Episode 598: The deportation of sex offender Chico...

Crime World ·

2024/06/14

A Congolese asylum seeker has been deported by the Garda National Immigration Bureau days after he walked free from another jail term.Chico Makamda was jailed in 2019 for a horrific sexual attack on a woman but had clocked up 15 other previous convictions in the 10 years he’d been in Ireland.Although he agreed to leave the country he never did.Nicola speaks to Eamon Dillon about the high-profile deportation from the country in recent weeks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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