Crime World

A target for the Criminal Assets Bureau who has been on the run in the UK has been jailed for a burglarly spree in London. Gary Ward is alleged by CAB to be a leading member of a Galway city-based drug dealing gang that exploits addicts to transport drugs.Niall Donald talks to Eamon Dillon about how the law has finally caught up with Ward.

A new video has emerged of the moment OnlyFans model Madison Allen was slashed in the face in Spain leaving her with shocking facial injuries.Madison Allen - who is married to the John George murder suspect Johnny Smyth - can be seen being cuddling with a man just moments before she is slashed with a blade.Niall speaks to Crime World's Steven Moore about Madison's initial claim that she was attacked by a stranger and her brushes with the law in Spain.

A government committee has controversially called for the full decriminalisation of drugs possession for personal use in Ireland. But within hours of the committee making the recommendation, it was met with fierce opposition from the Tánaiste and the gardai.Niall speaks to Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice in Maynooth University Dr Cian Ó Concubhair about the report and his own experience of getting caught with drugs.

Cash seized from a childhood pal of cartel boss Daniel Kinahan is finally to be handed over to the State - ten years after after gardai impounded it during a raid. The money was found in Jeremy Skerritt's home at the height of Kinahan-Hutch feud and led to the discovery of infamous Dutch criminal in a safehouse in Dublin.Niall talks to Eamon Dillon about how he first spotted Kinahan and Skerritt together outside court in 2001.

The Corkwoman who groped a teenager in a Malaguf sauna, Conor McGregor's controversial Jimmy Fallon chat, Ireland's most dangerous prisoner and how Steven Lyons' extradition could affect the Kinahans.Niall speaks to Eimear Rabbitt about the stories that caught our readers' eyes this week.  

The self-confessed ‘beast of all sex beasts’ who threatened to kidnap, rape, torture, and murder young women and girls has walked free from prison.Liam Finlay sent long letters to garda stations, a secondary school, and a third level college detailing his grotesque plan.However, he was caught by gardai using handwriting investigation tools and by tracing the stamps he used on the letters.Nicola speaks with Eamon Dillon about Finlay and his risk of reoffending.

Serial fraudster Samantha Cookes constructed an extraordinary web of deception that stretched across Ireland and the UK. A master manipulator, she adopted multiple identities and personas, to gain the trust of families, universities and even state agencies.Over the years, Cookes falsely claimed to be living with Huntington's disease, posed as a speech and language therapist, an occupational therapist, and even a surrogate mother. Her elaborate fabrications left a trail of victims and unanswered questions.Today, Chloe McPolin is joined by journalist and documentary maker Alan Bradley to discuss his new book, Unmasking Samantha Cookes: The Many Lives of a Serial Fraudster to discuss how the chameleon known as Carrie Jade Williams came to be.

 Convicted criminal Cyril McGuinness, who died in his UK home as police arrived to quiz him in relation to his role in the kidnap and torture of Kevin Lunny, has been named as one of three men involved in the IRA's 1996 bombing of Manchester. According to the Manchester Evening News, police suspected McGuinness, known as 'Dublin Jimmy', of having a hands-on role in the bomb plot. Nicola talks to Niall Donald about the Irish Republican who would have faced two major court cases had he lived to stand in the dock.