Crime World

Veteran criminal John Gilligan is facing more than 11 years in prison for drug and gun charges.An indictment presented to a court in the Costa Blanca heard the 74-year-old was arrested in a villa with ketamine, cocaine and marijuana along with a firearm.Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the pensioner and what trouble he faces in Spain.

Christa Pike has spent 30 years on Tennessee's death row and last month made international headlines when her execution by lethal injection was botched.Her life is a story of childhood abuse, a brutal murder, and how claims of Satanism led to her conviction.Eamon Dillon speaks to documentary maker Steve Payne, who was part of a crew that interviewed her shortly after she was sentenced to death in 1995.

Gregory Fox, who brutally murdered his wife and two sons has been moved to an open prison as he gets one step closer to freedom.Fox, who is originally from Clondalkin in Dublin, killed his wife Debbie, 30, and sons Trevor, nine, and seven-year-old Killian, in July 2001.It is understood the killer was moved to Shelton Abbey in Co Wicklow this summer as part of his sentence management set out by the Parole Board.Crime World's Caoimhe Young talks to Criminal Justice academic Clare Laxton about Fox and his move to Shelton Abbey.

A man once branded Ireland’s most dangerous teenager is finally ready to face justice for the murder of a harmless addict committed 16 years ago.Kurt Ryan pleaded guilty in relation to the murder of Lee Slattery, who was shot twice at close range and buried in a shallow grave in Limerick in 2010.Ryan smirked as a court heard he’d pleaded guilty to lesser charges after originally going on trial for murder.Nicola talks to Niall Donald.

Gangland killer Nicky McConnell has vowed revenge after an innocent female relative was wrongly targeted in a case of drug debt intimidation.McConnell wants to identify who threw a petrol bomb destroying the car of his associate mistakingly believed to owe money.Nicola talks to Niall Donald about McConnell.

The partner of jailed Hennessey brother Jason Hennessey Jnr has been refused an application to have two motorbikes seized by gardaí returned to her.Kayleigh McEntee claimed the bikes had been gifted to her partner by his murdered father and said she now needed to sell them to buy Christmas presents.Hennessey Jnr is serving an eight-and-a-half-year sentence for his role in the kidnap and torture of Barry Moore.

Two people appear in court after Waterford City buries its dead - a family killed as debate rages over the increase in drug debt intimidation.So what is the state of the criminal underworld where life is cheap and money is king?Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about a cultural shift which is shocking the nation.

A woman who stabbed her ex-partner to death while serving a suspended sentence for a pickaxe attack on his partner has been jailed for life.Sabrina Kehoe was free to murder Darren Quigley after being allowed to walk out of court despite admitting to breaking into his house and attacking his sleeping girlfriend.Niall talks to to Crime World’s Patrick O’Connell about Kehoe’s violent past and the devastation she has left behind.

A cheeky TikTok video posted by a convicted murderer behind bars in prison in Northern Ireland mocking the Justice Minister Naomi Long has led to a crackdown on phones behind bars.Weeks after Encrochat convict Dessie Enfield was caught trying to smuggle a phone into custody, killer Sean Anderson’s public posting has focused attention on the use of smartphones.Nicola speaks to Crime World's Steven Moore.