Crime World – Details, episodes & analysis

Criminals behind the mics, gangland nicknames and even a conspiracy theory around a secret pact between Jonathan Dowdall and Gerry The Monk Hutch.

Today we are answering your questions about all things underworld. 

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A girl snatched from a quiet country laneway only to turn up dead, a community shattered by false allegations and a miscarriage of justice that echoes down six decades.

Nicola speaks with author Mick Clifford about his extraordinary new book Who Killed Una Lynskey? A True Story of Murder, Vigilante Justice and the Garda Heavy Gang.

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Killer Edward Johnston shot dead in Malta after a standoff with police had been projecting himself as a self-help guru living the dream life.

Videos he has left behind on social media show a successful, fit, wealthy man urging others to follow his lead so they can experience happiness too.

But as he was filming himself he was also conducting a terrifying stalking and harassment campaign against his ex-girlfriend Nicolette Ghirxi who he stabbed to death before a standoff with police that led to his death.

So what can we learn from Johnston and his internet persona and how are domestic violence and stalking issues handled by police?

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Anthony Campbell didn’t stand a chance. It was December 2006 and Anthony was working as an apprentice plumber in Dublin when he found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. An innocent bystander caught up in the brutal assassination of Martin 'Marlo' Hyland, Campbell's senseless murder is still unsolved almost twenty years later.

Join the Crime World team as they investigate the events of that day in 2006, and speak to the people most intimately affected by one of Ireland's most shocking killings. First episode out May 21st.

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74 year old Winnie Lawrence pocketed more than €20,000 after making false personal injury claims but now she has gone to jail for her crimes.

Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about an investigation into an accident prone gran who slipped on a cabbage leaf and a wider gang who made more than 40 bogus claims defrauding insurance companies with a series of tumbles, crashes and falls.

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Gangsters moll Caoimhe Robinson has become the face of Kinahan money laundering after a massive investigation uncovered her role buying and selling properties in Dubai.

The widow of murdered drug dealer Michael ‘Micka’ Kelly who went on to marry Daniel Kinahan at a plush ceremony in Dubai in 2017 has become the face of a new high profile International Consortium of Investigative Journalists probe into Kinahan Cartel properties, sanctions and lifestyle in the Emirates.

Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about Robinson and her husband’s deadly drug cartel.

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Europe is in the grip of 821 serious organised crime groups with 25,000 members who between them carve up the most dangerous drug dealing, people trafficking and fraud operations on the continent.

A new Europol report delves into the make up of the groups and the threat they pose to society through corruption, violence and money laundering.

Nicola talks to Eamon Dillon and Niall Donald about Europe and its gangs.

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A Drogheda feud member, convicted of a brutal abduction and torture, has launched his rap career with a highly produced music video about crime and carnage on the streets of his home town.

Criminal Dean Thornton is hoping to find fame with his song about feuding, guns and gangster culture.

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Gangland gun victim Josh Itseli may have been killed by accident when members of his own gang rented a high powered weapon to threaten rivals.

Gardai believe that the 20 year old may have been shot after the car in which he was travelling in was rammed and the semi automatic AR15 fired.

Nicola talks to Niall Donald about the killing and the crack cocaine epidemic fuelling rivalry’s between young men.

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A portal on Dublin’s Talbot Street linked to a Snazzy Manhattan district, secrets of Las Vegas staying in Sin City and a particularly Irish sense of humour that turned the US off.

Nicola talks to Niall Donald about Dublin and a chance of stardom..

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