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4MOREYEARSFOR ‘SEXUALPREDATOR’ PRINCIPAL
A former Dublin school principal described by a judge as “a sexual predator” who abused young boys in their “formative years” has been jailed for four years. Patrick Harte (84) was employed as a teacher at Sancta Maria Christian Brothers school on...
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LUCKYDIPGANGBEHIND SPATEOFHIGH-END MOTORBIKETHEFTS
Members of the Lucky Dip gang are using devices that bypass the immobiliser on targeted vehicles. In a recent garda operation, in which four suspected teenage gang members were arrested, officers seized the internet-bought device that can be plugged...
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KINAHAN GANG STALKEDVICTIM WITHGPSTRACKER
Senior Kinahan gang figure Sean McGovern has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to directing the activities of a crime gang to carry out the murder of Noel ‘Duck Egg’ Kirwan as well as a failed hit on James ‘Mago’ Gately. McGovern (below),...
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€5M COCAINE HAUL LINKED TO ‘THE FAMILY’
A SEIZURE of €5.25 million worth of cocaine in Co Monaghan is being linked to the besieged west Dublin drug mob known as ‘The Family’. The seizure was made on Friday after gardaí stopped several vehicles and searched a business premises as part of...
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BACK TO RED SQUARE ONE FOR KINAHANS
The Kinahan crime family abandoned secret plans to flee their hideout in Dubai “at the last minute” after securing a safe sanctuary in Russia. The Herald understands that Christy Kinahan Sr and his two sons, Daniel and Christy Jr, obtained Russian...
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MANGUILTYOF BEATING DRUNK FRIENDTODEATH
A scaffolder who meted out a “volley of violence” on a defenceless “drunken bowsie” in response to his mother being insulted was found guilty of murder by a Central Criminal Court jury yesterday. It was the State’s case that Juris Kokenbergs died...
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KINAHAN PALJAILED FOR DRUG POSSESSION
A one-time friend of gangland criminal Christy Kinahan is getting older and is no longer involved in that life, a court was told this week. Noel Boylan (51) was found with over €4,000 worth of drugs after gardaí raided his house in west...
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NEWPAIROF SMACKSFOR PRISONER
Officers at Dublin’s Wheatfield Prison knew things were not as they seam-ed when they rumbled €6,000 worth of heroin stitched into a pair of jeans. The trousers had been dropped to the prison for an inmate but eagle-eyed staff detected the contraband...
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PRIEST LOSES €50K TO LOAVES AND PHISHING SCAM
A parish priest had nearly €50,000 stolen from his personal bank account in a scam after he tried to pay a connection fee for broadband through online banking. In a call to the presbytery, the priest was instructed to pay the €5 “line upgrade” fee...
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WOMENJAILED FORKNIFING GRANINFACE
Three women wept in court as they were jailed for knifing a grandmother in the face and beating her with sticks. Christina McCarthy (61), was left with permanent facial scarring after being set upon by the group of women in the bedroom of her home, at...
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FAMILIESLOCKEDOUTOF NEWHOMES INWATERROW
A developer behind a Swords housing estate has accused Uisce Éireann of being “unreasonable” and responsible for delays preventing dozens of people from moving into their new homes. Sandra McCormack, her partner Darren Graydon, and their daughter...
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PENSIONER (79) GETS TEN YEARS FOR RAPE OF TEEN GIRL
A 79-year-old man has been jailed for 10 years for raping a teenage girl in her own bed over 30 years ago. Michael Sinnott was aged 47 when he entered the house and raped the 15-year-old girl while her parents were away for the morning. Mr Justice...
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KILLER DRIVER HITSGARDA WITHDIRTBIKE
A killer driver and known associate of a Kinahan cartel gunman is being quizzed over an incident in which a garda was knocked down and injured by a high-powered electric dirt bike. The patrolling officer spotted the e-scrambler being ridden on green...
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GANGSTERS KISS THEIR ASSETS GOODBYE
The Criminal Assets Bureau (Cab) recouped over €1m for the Exchequer in just 48 hours this week, by selling off properties linked to criminals in Dublin, Limerick and Waterford. The seized houses included a four-bed gaff at Ratoath Road, Cabra that...
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RENTS COULD INCREASE 25 PC—SAYS CITY’S BIGGEST LANDLORD
Ireland’s largest landlord has told investors the radical rent reforms coming into play at the weekend will see its rental income shoot up. Ires Reit said the controversial changes which come into effect this Sunday, could lead to a rise of up to 25pc...
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GUNMANGETS7YEARS FORKILLINGDAD LUREDTODOOR
The shooter in a “meticulously planned” murder of a much-loved and vulnerable victim has been sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to a conspiracy charge. Mr Justice Paul McDermott said it was accepted that Joseph Richards (35) was...
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MMA FIGHTER AND CHEF CHARGED WITH TEMPLE BAR ASSAULT
An MMA fighter and a chef have been refused bail after appearing in court charged with a “ferocious” unprovoked attack in Dublin’s Temple Bar last week. The injured man remains in a critical condition at Beaumont Hospital.
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ROGUE DENTIST BRACED FOR SENTENCING
A dentist who admitted to multiple false claims under the Dental Treatment Scheme will be sentenced today for fraud. Jerome Kiely (47), from Ballykisteen, Co Tipperary, made claims that involved inventing treatments, forging signatures and submitting...
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‘Abusestolepartsofus we can never get back’
The children of a man who subjected them to decades of sexual abuse have told how their lives were blighted by their ordeal. Noel Farrell (70) was yesterday sentenced to 20 years in prison for the abuse of his son and four daughters. Some of the...
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COWARD’S WAYOUT
Perv swim coach Matthew Coward (34) was released from prison yesterday after serving 27 months for filming young girls as they got changed. The Dubliner skulked out of Arbour Hill with his hood up to avoid waiting photographers.
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CABTOSELLIRATHUG’S HIGHEND SPORTS CARS
Three high-end cars seized from Real IRA thug Nathan Kinsella can be sold off by the Criminal Assets Bureau ahead of a hearing to have the vehicles declared criminal proceeds. The BMW M2, a BMW M3 and an Audi Q7 were described as “very high worth”...
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‘IT’S A MESS OF HIS OWN MAKING’
A US court has granted a temporary stay of 10 working days on the deportation of Irishman Séamus Culleton. Attorney Ogor Okoye of BOS Legal Group said she has not been informed of any deportation, and that she is committed to ensuring Mr Culleton can...
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CRIMINALSWHO DUMPEDTEEN’S BODYPARTSGET 12YEARS
Two criminals who dumped the dismembered body of teenager Keane Mulready -Woods across different parts of Dublin were jailed for a total of 12 years yesterday by the Special Criminal Court. The 17-year-old was murdered by gangland killer Robbie Lawlor...
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‘WE WANT THE TRUTH ABOUT MY SISTER’
The brother of an American woman who was allegedly killed by a Dublin man in Budapest said his family “wants the truth” to come out about how his only sibling died. The man (38), has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Mackenzie Michalski (31), in...
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FLOOD, SWEAT ANDTEARS
Residents of The Mayne apartments in Belmayne, north Dublin, yesterday found that their underground car park had been “completely flooded”. Videos and images showed how the basement car park of the apartments had become submerged in a deluge of...
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MANSTRANGLEDDAD ATTOPRESORT WHILE INSANE
A wealthy New Yorker who strangled his father at a five-star midlands resort after the 66-yearold had travelled from the US on a “mission of mercy” to help his son has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. The 12 jurors accepted...
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MONK: I’M READYFOR SECONDACT
Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch has confirmed he is planning to contest the Dublin Central by-election. He was speaking at Dublin’s Ambassador Theatre yesterday evening with actor Rex Ryan for a publicity event ahead of the opening night of Ryan’s play The...
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MANARRESTED OVER MURDER OFDANIEL
A man has been arrested at Dublin Airport over the killing of Daniel Aruebose, whose remains were found on waste ground last September after more than four years missing. The suspect, who is in his late 20s, was taken into garda custody this evening...
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INNOCENT FAMILY HOMELESS AFTER ARSON ATTACK
An innocent family of six, including a one-year-old baby, were left injured and homeless after being caught up in a suspected arson attack in their Dublin apartment block in the early hours of Sunday. Jordan Wade, his partner Katie Chalk, and their...
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‘GENTLEMAN’ FRANK NEVER CAME HOME
Neighbours of the Dublin man killed in Thursday’s bus crash on North Earl Street feared for his safety as soon as they heard about the tragedy. East Wall resident Frank Daly (85) was known to routinely walk to the city centre for lunch in a cafe close...
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‘LIKE A BOMB GOING OFF’
Witnesses to yesterday’s fatal bus crash on a Dublin city street have told how they thought it was “a bomb going off”. One man was killed and three others seriously injured when the Bus Éireann double-decker careered into the pedestrianised North Earl...
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‘HUTCHGANGARESTILL HEAVILYINVOLVED INDRUGS’-TOPCOP
The Hutch Organised Crime Group are still one of Ireland’s main gangs and remain “heavily involved in drug trafficking” 10 years after the deadly feud began, a senior garda has said. Detective Chief Superintendent Seamus Boland has compared the 2016...
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VICTIM BRANDED ‘RAT’ FEARED BEING MURDERED
Five Dublin criminals with over 120 previous convictions carried out a prolonged attack on a man by branding him ‘Rat’ with a hot iron, waterboarding him and running over him with an electric bike. Three brothers Jason, Brandon and Devon Hennessy are...
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‘I’LL FIGHT TO GET JUSTICE FOR KEN’
THE heartbroken father of a man who was murdered and dumped in the Dublin mountains is calling for clarity as to why a file on the case has yet to be sent to the Department of Public Prosecution. The body of Brian Fetherston’s son Kenneth was found on...
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MANWAS STABBED TODEATH‘IN VIOLENTRAGE’
DETECTIVES are waiting to question a woman over the suspected murder of a man in what has been described as a “violent rage”. The 57-year-old victim suffered multiple stab wounds to his back and stomach in the early hours of Saturday morning in the...
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TEACHER’S SIX-YEAR RELATIONSHIP WITHPUPIL
A FEMALE secondary school teacher who said she had a “one-night stand” with a past pupil has admitted she has been in a six-year “loving relationship” with him and lied about it to an inquiry. The teacher yesterday accepted she “deliberately deceived”...
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‘YOUSTABBEDME INTHEARTERY, YOU F**KING EEJIT’
A Dublin father who suffered a fatal knife wound to his neck, told the man who had inflicted the injury: “You stabbed me in the artery, you f**king eejit,” a murder trial has heard. The jury in the trial of Joseph Lawlor (39) were yesterday shown CCTV...
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GETAWAYCARKEYFROM BOTCHED HIT ‘VANISHED’
Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a car key that is suspected of belonging to a vehicle that was burnt out in a botched gangland hit in Dublin almost five years ago. This week at the Central Criminal Court Stephen Mulvey (34) and Jamie Berry (30),...
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GRACEDEATHSUSPECT ‘SPED THROUGH RED LIGHT’
A scrambler rider drove his bike “at speed” through a red light at a pedestrian crossing when he crashed into a teenage girl and fatally injured her, it is alleged. Grace Lynch (16) was seriously injured in the incident last Sunday afternoon. She...
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‘SEEING GRACE TAKE LASTB REATH WAS SO PAINFUL’
THE mother of a teenager killed in a scrambler crash in north Dublin has pledged to “fight” to get scrambler bikes and e-scooters off the streets. Grace Lynch (16, right) died after an incident on the Ratoath Road in Finglas on Sunday afternoon. Over...
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GIRLKILLEDIN SCRAMBLER HORROR
A TEENAGE girl who was struck by a scrambler bike in north Dublin yesterday died in hospital last night. It is understood the girl was walking on the Ratoath Road in Finglas, Dublin 11, at around 2.20pm yesterday when the crash happened. A green...
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‘LOOK HOW MUCHOFHIS EAR I’VE GOT’
Two men who assaulted a couple on a Dublin street, leaving a man with part of his ear bitten off, have been jailed. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that while Ciaran Whelan (35) and Robert Costello (35) fought with their victim on the ground,...
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SNAPCHATVIDEOOF SEXATTACKSENTTO TEENVICTIM
Suspects in the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl later sent her video footage of the incident on Snapchat. Five teenage boys were arrested on Tuesday in relation to the alleged sex attack at a location near Dublin city centre around 12 months...
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LARRY’SKILLER COUSIN BACK ONTHESTREETS
Rapist and killer David Lawler, a cousin of rape beast Larry Murphy, walked free from prison yesterday morning after 30 years behind bars. Former telephone technician Lawler (60) was released from Dublin’s Arbour Hill Prison after serving a life...
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NKENCHOWAS ‘HEARINGVOICES’ BEFORE SHOOTING
George Nkencho’s sister Grateful told the inquest into his shooting yesterday that her brother was “hearing voices” before he was fatally wounded by gardaí outside their family home in west Dublin five years ago. Two gardaí who first confronted Mr...
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ONE STEP FORWARD TWOSTEPS BURKE
Enoch Burke faces a return to prison today after again breaching a court order restraining him from going to Wilson’s Hospital School. Despite being warned off by Mr Justice Brian Cregan after his release from Mountjoy on Wednesday, Mr Burke showed up...
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NKENCHOATTACK HADWORKER ‘FEARING FORMYLIFE’
A MAN put supermarket staff in fear of their lives after threatening them with a knife shortly before he was fatally shot by gardaí in west Dublin five years ago, an inquest has heard. A sitting of Dublin District Coroner’s Court heard evidence from...
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PUB BARRING LED TO THUGS TORCHING 8 CARS
DETECTIVES are investigating if associates of missing drugs baron Sean Dunne ordered an arson attack in which eight cars were set alight in a pub car park. Sources have revealed the attack happened after a criminal closely linked to Dunne – who went...
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TRAGIC OISIN LAY DEAD FOR HOURS
Gardaí believe Oísin Reddin (12) lay dead for a number of hours before his body was found in his bed at his home in Clondalkin on Thursday. Oísin was killed by asphyxiation at some time on Wednesday night, investigators believe. His father Wayne...
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GARDAIURGEFAMILIES TO REPORT SPEEDERS
Gardaí have urged the public to report friends or family members who engage in dangerous driving after a high number of road fatalities last year. This call comes as more than 700 drivers a day were caught speeding over the Christmas period, while 21...
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XLBULLYVICTIM TOSUEOWNERS ANDHOUSING AUTHORITY
A young boy who suffered life-changing injuries in an attack by an XL Bully dog has issued High Court proceedings against the owners and Tuath Housing. Alejandro Mizsan was aged nine when he was mauled by a dog while he was playing with friends in the...
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MOTORWAY OF MAYHEM
The M50 that wraps around Dublin continues to be the motorway with the highest number of incidents, collisions and traffic levels in the country. Indeed, the seriousness of the situation is borne out by data as there were more crashes in the first 10...
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COME OUT YE BLACK OLD CANS
The number of bins on Dublin’s streets fell between the beginning of 2024 and the end of last year, according to figures released by Dublin City Council. The number of local authority trash cans on the streets of the capital fell to 3,173 while the...
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IRISH DRIVERS ON ROADTOHELL
The Road Safety Authority has warned about the high rate of defective cars on Irish roads with almost 133,000 vehicles failing the NCT for “dangerous” faults. Official figures show that around one in every 13 vehicles tested during 2025 was assessed...
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‘THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY OUT’
Finglas locals smashed windows and encouraged a family trapped by fire after an arson attack to jump for their lives, The Herald has learned. Gardaí believe the firebomb attack on an innocent Dublin family’s home that left two women and three teens in...
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FRAUDSTERS STEAL €30KFROMSINGLE MOTHER
A single mother had €30,000 from her divorce settlement stolen by scammers posing as Revenue and Bank of Ireland employees. Last February she recieved a message claiming to be from the Revenue Commissioners which did not seem suspicious because the...
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BROTHERS DIE IN BLAZE TRAGEDY
TWO brothers have died in a fire at their farmhouse in a Christmas week tragedy. Pa and Seamus Cuffe, both in their late 80s, from Rathlee, Easkey, Co Sligo, were found dead at 11am yesterday after a fire broke out overnight.
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THEDYINGBREED
Seventy-three XL Bully dogs have been put down around the country since a ban on the breed came into effect in February, the Department of Agriculture has revealed. The XL Bully became a controversial breed after a number of attacks which included...
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‘BOTTLER’ BREAKS UP BATTLERS
Notorious gangland criminal Derek ‘BotDevoy tler’ had to step in after two alleged killers got into a prison punch-up. Shocking video of the incident in Portlaoise Prison last weekend was recorded by a fellow prisoner through the hatch in his cell...
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WOMAN ARRESTED ON SUSPICIONOF DANIEL’S MURDER
Gardaí have arrested a woman on suspicion of the murder of Daniel Aruebose (3), whose body was found buried in a field in north Dublin earlier this year. Two weeks ago, the investigation into the disappearance of the boy (above) was upgraded to one of...
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FAMILIES ‘FACE BRUTAL CHRISTMAS EVICTIONS’
SOCIAL housing tenants are being faced with a “tsunami” of termination notices in the run-up to Christmas, a councillor has warned. In response to an audit report from Fingal County Council, councillor John Burtchaell said: “I know a family at...
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‘MY BROTHER PAID WITH HIS LIFE OVER THESE PEOPLE’
THE BROTHER of a man fatally shot by a family member with a submachine gun has said his sibling was a “decent, honest man” who paid the ultimate price for meeting people in the drugs trade. A court heard yesterday that gunman Christopher Devine’s...
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SINN FEIN ACTIVIST ARRESTOVER €4MCOCAINEHAUL
A Sinn Féin activist has been arrested over a plot to smuggle €4m of cocaine into Ireland in horse boxes. Gardaí made the arrest during raids in Co Kildare and Co Wexford on Wednesday when they seized 58kg of suspected cocaine.
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SIX YEARS FOR WOMAN WHO SET FIRE TO DUBLIN BUS
A woman has been jailed for six years for setting fire to a bus during the 2023 Dublin riots, causing nearly half-a-million euro worth of damage. Before her case was finalised, Leanne Kelly (34) told Judge Martina Baxter to “f**k off” and to sentence...
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JAILED FOR BLOWING€172K OFCHARITYCASH
A former chair of Cavan County Council has been jailed for two years and nine months after stealing over €172,000 from a mental health housing charity. Seán McKiernan (below) used the money for drugs and sex with South American male escorts over a...
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HEROSHOTTWICE DURING BONDI TERRORATTACK
Australian police said that the alleged offenders behind the attack at Sydney’s Bondi beach were a father and son. Father-of-two Ahmed al Ahmed, from Sydney, has been hailed a hero for tackling one of the gunmen before wrestling the weapon away from...
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DEL BOY’S CANNABIS MOTORCYCLE SMASH
A convicted killer was found to be four times over the legal limit for cannabis when he seriously injured a Ukrainian woman in a motorcycle crash. Derek Moore (42), also known as Derek ‘Del Boy’ Hutch, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing...
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SPANISH COPS CLOSEINON ‘THE MONK’
Spanish officials now believe they have enough evidence to bring criminal charges against Gerry Hutch over a money-laundering investigation in the Canary Islands. Authorities have also confirmed that any plans by ‘The Monk’ (left) to run in the...
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