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New PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boucher is an old school detective who cut his teeth with the feared flying squad at the Met Police, who was refused the top job in Northern Ireland at a previous interview and whose Kenova Report is a highly anticipated document expected to give a no holds barred account of the handling of the notorious Stakeknife. Fresh into the position after the resignation of the...

Convicted Real IRA member Nathan Kinsella has pleaded guilty to tax charges while his partner Jennifer Dunne had money laundering and tax charges dropped against her at the Special Criminal Court. Kinsella will be sentenced next January after the unravelling of the State’s money laundering case against the couple. Nicola is talking to to Niall Donald about Kinsella, his past role as an extortionis...

The sentencing of Tom and Molly Martens in a North Carolina Court for the manslaughter of Limerick dad Jason Corbett brings some closure to the terrible events of August 2015 when he was bludgeoned to death at his home by the father and daughter. But it has left a terrible scar on his loving family who have had to sit through weeks of shocking evidence which painted a false picture of him as a vio...

***First published September 2022*** He is New York’s most notorious Russian mobster, who made and lost a fortune from heroin trafficking, tax fraud and diamond smuggling. A gulag survivor hardened by the harsh punishments of the Soviet Union, Boris Biba Nayfeld became a gang enforcer and later a mob boss suspected of murder, torture and doing business with the Mafia’s infamous 'Five Families'. A...

Jozef Puska has been found guilty of murdering Ashling Murphy in January 2022.   A jury of 3 women and nine men spent just over 2hours and 20 minutes deliberating their verdict.   Niall is joined by Crime World’s Clodagh Meaney who was in court as the verdict was read out.   We discuss the emotions in court, the ‘nonsense’ defence and the man who was labelled by the presiding judge...

An underground bunker, a community of internet warriors attempting to create their own other world nirvana and an Irish criminal Godfather afraid of the dark. It sounds like the plot of a Netflix drama - and it is but it’s far from fiction. Nicola speaks to Max Rainer and Killian Lieb, the writers and directors of 'Cyberbunker' a new true crime documentary to be screened on the streaming giant fro...

A key member of the Kinahan organisation has been released from prison with another senior operative due out in the coming days. Both Liam Brannigan and Dean Howe have served their sentences for a feud-related conspiracy to kill, and Gardai will be watching closely to see if they leave for Dubai or try to regroup in Dublin. Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about Brannigan described by a Judge as the...

Coming November 13th. Nora Sheehan, a Cork mother of three, was found murdered on the banks of the River Bandon in 1981. She had suffered a tragic, violent death, and the discovery of her body shocked the community. One local man soon became the chief suspect, but a series of freak accidents and untimely deaths let Noel Long walk free. Now, 42 years later, the case of Nora Sheehan's death is once...

The prosecution and defence have concluded their closing statements in the trial of Jozef Puska, accused of murdering Ashling Murphy in January 2022.   While one side say they’ve established beyond a reasonable doubt that Puska is guilty, the other say there is not enough evidence to convict.   Niall Donald talks to Crime World’s Clodagh Meaney who has been covering the trial at the cent...

Listen to part two of the first chapter of Nicola Tallant's new book 'Cocaine Cowboys' exclusively on Crime World. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to part one of the first chapter of Nicola Tallant's new book 'Cocaine Cowboys' exclusively on Crime World. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Niall and Nicola swap sides as Niall does the interviewing with Nicola in the hot seat answering questions about her new book Cocaine Cowboys. The book follows the growth of cocaine supply and demand in Ireland and is the definitive tale of the white gold rush and the cowboys who created a Wild West frontier both here and abroad while becoming multi millionaires in the process. Hosted on Acast. Se...

Supergrass Gary Haggarty admitted to five murders, another five attempted murders and more than 200 terror offences during his time as an Ulster Volunteer Force boss and before he became a State Witness in Northern Ireland. So how do we take the evidence of a career tout and a murderer who denied being a serial killer when he stood to give evidence at a murder trial in Belfast in recent weeks? Can...

Jozef Puska’s cross examination on the witness stand ended today. During his testimony, Puska says he was stabbed by an unknown man who then proceeded to attack and kill Ashling Murphy. Now there is only one more witness left to be heard in the case as closing arguments are set to begin next week. Niall Donald speaks to Crime World’s Clodagh Meaney about what murder accused Jozef Puska claims happ...

A massive dollars 35 million has been put up as a reward for information into the unsolved death of a wealthy Toronto couple killed in their home in 2017. Barry and Honey Sherman were discovered side by side at their indoor pool with leather belts looped around their necks and tied to the railings but cops first thought their deaths to be a domestic murder suicide. Instead a killer had gained entr...

Jozef Puska who is on trial accused of murdering Ashling Murphy in 2022 took to the stand today in his own defence. As the prosecution rested their case, the court took a 15-minute recess after which the defendant stepped into the spotlight of the court and into the witness stand. Niall Donald speaks to Crime World’s Clodagh Meaney about what unfolded in court today, and what’s next in the trial....

American father and daughter Tom and Molly Martens have made a plea bargain deal with North Carolina prosecutors which could see them win their freedom despite admitting they killed tragic dad of two Jason Corbett. Retired FBI agent Tom and his daughter Molly both pleaded guilty to voluntary man slaughter in a move which is sure to devastate the family of Jason back in Ireland. So what does the pl...

Last year, the people of Derry marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Bloody Sunday massacre. The brutal attack by the British Army on unarmed protestors left fourteen people dead and has been a source of anger and grief in the city for half a century. Now, for the first time, following a thirty-year campaign by the victims’ families, one of the soldiers involved in the killings is facing trial fo...

The prosecution case against Jozef Puska, accused of murdering Ashling Murphy in January 2022 is set to end this week.   In court today, Professor Michael Ryan said that there was no evidence to support the suggestion that an admission given to Gardai by Jozef Puska was related to the effects of an opioid painkiller.   Niall Donald speaks to Crime World’s Clodagh Meaney as the prose...

Witch, devil worshipper and Ireland’s first serial killer are just some of the titles that have been bestowed on Darkey Kelly over the years.   Born in the 1700s as Dorcus, she ran a brothel on Fishamble Street in Dublin’s city centre. And while not much is known about her life, the story went that she was burned at the stake for witchcraft after she sacrificed her baby to the devil in 1746....

Last year, the people of Derry marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Bloody Sunday massacre. The brutal attack by the British Army on unarmed protestors left fourteen people dead and has been a source of anger and grief in the city for half a century. Now, for the first time, following a thirty-year campaign by the victims’ families, one of the soldiers involved in the killings is facing trial fo...

Last year, the people of Derry marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Bloody Sunday massacre. The brutal attack by the British Army on unarmed protestors left fourteen people dead and has been a source of anger and grief in the city for half a century. Now, for the first time, following a thirty-year campaign by the victims’ families, one of the soldiers involved in the killings is facing trial fo...

Socialite Fran Fennell lived it up on a rollercoaster of holidays and nights out with models and executives while selling vast amount of cocaine to the party circuit. And he made vast profits from a unique cocaine start up which saw him fly human mules from Ireland to Australia where he could quadruple his profits. But the playboy dealer who was groomed by underworld killer Eamon ‘The Don’ Dunne a...

A new crime drama co-funded by RTE follows the mystery of a missing Irish couple in New Zealand and features a immoral female crime journalist whose character follows a tired Hollywood cliché of the profession as unethical and ruthless. The International Women’s Media Foundation says the tired trope of sexualised female journalists persists in popular culture despite being crass, base and often of...