Murderous Criminal Gang Is Brutal,
Ruthless,
Invincible and Untouchable
There was a chilling message included in the black bag of human
limbs found by a group of teenagers on the side of a road in a north Dublin
housing estate last Monday night.
The message was in the form of a pair of black and white
flip-flops. The message was clear to the rival gang criminals for whom it was
meant: "Don't think you can beat me up on the street, steal my sports bag
and shoes and get away with it."
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| KEANE MULREADY-WOODS MURDERED and DISMEMBERED BY DRUGS GANG |
Gardaí believe the killers were on their way to deposit the
remains of Keane Mulready-Woods outside the home of a rival gang member just
before 10pm that night when they "got spooked" by the presence of a
Garda Armed Support Unit nearby. It was in the area for a completely unrelated reason, but the
killers dumped the sports bag and drove away.
Gardaí also believe further human remains that were found in the
early hours of Wednesday morning in a burning car in Ballybough in Dublin's
north inner city were also originally destined to be left outside the home of
another major criminal.
This man, who lives in Co Louth, is suspected of being
responsible for many other heinous crimes, including the disappearance and
suspected murders of Willie Maughan and Ana Varslavane who have not been seen
since April 2015.
However, by late Monday night the remains of 17-year-old Keane
Mulready-Woods, from Beachwood Drive in Drogheda, Co Louth, had already been
discovered and an intensive murder investigation was under way. It was no
longer possible for the killers to continue with Plan A.
Detectives believe
Keane Mulready-Woods was killed in a house in Drogheda
Plan B necessitated the rapid disposal of the child's remains.
Some were left on the side of the road in Coolock; some were recovered from the
burned-out stolen blue Volvo V40 on Wednesday morning, while some of Keane’s
remains are still missing. Gardaí therefore cannot definitively say how he
died.
The gruesome and brutal murder has been shocking on so many
levels. Firstly, it is a gangland murder, but it is also the gangland
murder of a child.
Secondly, there is the barbarity of the dismemberment of the
teenager's remains and the subsequent dispersal of those remains.
Thirdly, there is the considered and calculated nature of that
act in that it was not done to dispose or conceal evidence, to make the crime
more difficult to solve - or to ensure the guilty could continue to walk free.
It was done to taunt and threaten rival criminals and to send a message that no
act is too savage for this criminal gang to contemplate or commit.
Fourthly, there is the unrepentant nature of the suspects
involved and the wider gang membership whose leaders have been seen casually
going about their business in public after the murder. They have been seen on
the streets and drinking in various pubs in Drogheda.
From the criminals' perspective, the act of dismembering the
child’s body as a strategy in an ongoing organised crime feud has the
additional devastating impact of heaping more pain and suffering on an already
grieving family.
The murder is of itself an outrage; the way the victim’s remains
were treated is another. The violation of Keane’s body has exposed his parents,
brother, sister and other loved ones to an unspeakable indignity, but it also
sends a message to the wider community that this criminal gang is brutal,
ruthless, invincible and untouchable.
This was the gang’s public message, but the deliberate inclusion
by the main suspect of the flip-flops in the bag of limbs discovered in Coolock
on Monday night was a private message from one gangster to his rivals that he
knew they would fully understand. It relates back to an attack on the main
suspect on the street late last year just after he got out of jail.
The attack by a man who believes the suspect in this week's
murder also shot dead his father over a decade ago, was filmed and posted on
social media.
Gardaí suspect but have not confirmed that 17-year-old
Mulready-Woods was also there that day holding the mobile phone and recording
the attack.
The criminal was confronted coming out of a gym. His bag with a
pair of black and white flip-flops was also stolen by the attackers. The
flip-flops were subsequently used in another online image.
A detailed forensic
examination of evidence is being conducted at Garda Headquarters
A rival gangster was pictured wearing them, pointing to them and
mocking the suspected killer. They laughed at the idea of a hitman wearing
flip-flops in the gym. The move was designed to taunt and humiliate him and it
is clear that he felt the need to hit back.
The hitman's reply was to leave a pair of similar black and
white flip-flops in the sports bag with the remains of Keane Mulready-Woods to
be found by his rivals. The Gardaí retrieved them as evidence in the murder
inquiry.
Social media has been weaponised by both gangs in this dispute.
Just as others including members of the Travelling community involved
in family feuds and bare-knuckle fighting have recorded threats on tapes and
online and posted them to rivals, those on both sides of the Drogheda gangs
feud have adapted the same tactic.
As well as fighting, stabbing, shooting and killing each other
in Dublin and Louth, the gangsters have taken their feud online. The images and
recordings, which are widely available, are disturbing and distressing.
Gardaí have established that images of a torso and human limbs,
as well as a video showing a young man being attacked, are not connected to the
murder of the teenager. They have asked people not to contribute to
the cycle of threats and violence by circulating this material.
They also say they have made significant progress in the
investigation. The week-long forensic examination of the house in Rathmullen
Park in Drogheda, the suspected murder scene, has yielded significant evidence.
Forensic specialists from the Garda and Forensic Science Ireland
have found blood stains in the house, including on the floor- boards. They have
discovered evidence of attempts to deep clean the house and have seized
cleaning products and equipment.
They have seized a number of very large knives and suspect there
are blood stains on them. However, this needs to be confirmed by a detailed
forensic examination in the laboratories of Forensic Science Ireland at Garda
Headquarters.
Search teams have also found other evidence in a shed at back of
the house and evidence of a fire in a green area at the back of the property.
That material is also being forensically examined to see if it relates to an
attempt to destroy evidence. Detectives believe Mulready-Woods was taken to the
house, murdered and his body dismembered.
Gardaí have also identified a number of suspects for the
murder, in particular two individuals associated with the feuding criminal
gangs. One is in his 20s, another in his 30s; one is from the Drogheda area,
the other from the Coolock area of north Dublin. Neither of the men live in the
house being forensically examined.
The house in
Rathmullen Park has been forensically examined
Investigators have also recovered the car they believe was used
to move the child's remains around Dublin and Louth after the murder. The 161
D blue Volvo V40 with alloy wheels was stolen in Sandymount in Dublin on
15 December and was fitted with false plates, 141 MO 1925.
Gardaí have received information in relation to at least
two sightings of that car but they still need to track its movements up to last
Wednesday morning when it was found on fire in a lane in Dublin's north inner
city.
It had four alloy wheels when stolen but when it was found it
had only three alloys and the spare wheel on it.
The origins of the Drogheda feud, which has resulted in the
murder and mutilation of a teenager, lie in the attempted murder of one gang
leader by another. The target was not killed but seriously injured and left
with life-changing injuries.
For a man who was proud of his ability and appearance, who had
spent thousands on dental work alone, shortly before he was shot and severely
disabled, this has been a very difficult cross to bear.
His new life has been made more difficult for him by the
continuing taunts and threats to him from rival gangsters which clearly display
the absence of any sense of empathy, decency, morality or remorse.
Shortly after he had shot and injured the man, the gunman phoned
him to personally taunt and threaten him while he was still recovering in
hospital. The conversation went as follows:
"What's the story," the gunman said to his victim,
"do you remember me?"
"Never met you in me life," the victim replied.
"Just ringing to say how ya getting on, are you
alright?" the gunman asked his victim.
"Oh I’m alright," the victim replied.
"Just thinking around the last while man, I feel bad for
you to tell you the truth, it’s hard on top isn’t it?"
"Ah it’s hard on the top boy."
"C’mere tell me, listen, how are ya getting on?
Alright?"
"Sure I’m after telling you same question twice," the
victim replies, slightly irritated.
"C’mere listen, you still up in the hospital, are you
man?" the gunman asks.
"Yea, sure what do you want?"
"Yea, that’s what I’m saying, the next day or two, me and
me mates goin' to drop you up a few flowers, yeah?"
"Yea, I love flowers, would you like flowers back
son?"
"I do, I do, I do yeah but c’mere yea, are you stuck for
anything up there, do you need anything, no?" the gunman taunts.
"Ah, I was never stuck for a thing in me life" the
victim replies suspiciously, "I wasn’t a corner boy like you."
And on it goes in the same confrontational, taunting and
mutually degrading fashion for another five minutes with sexually explicit
references and insults to named family members.
The gunman recorded the conversation and posted it on social
media as part of what is clearly an ongoing propaganda war amongst these two
organised crime gangs. Since that conversation took place three people have
been shot dead.
The Gardaí say the gunman is one of the most dangerous
members of the gangs.
A relatively young man who’s strong and well built.
The Gardaí have found him topless dressed only in shorts,
white socks and runners when they have gone to arrest him. He doesn’t come
quiet and armed support is always needed.
The man’s attire is in sharp contrast to that of his younger
rivals in the other gang, including the late Keane Mulready-Woods, who
displayed the trappings of organised crime.
When the 17-year-old disappeared last Sunday at 6pm, he was
dressed in over €1,000 worth of designer clothes; a Navy Hugo Boss
tracksuit, Black Hugo Boss runners (brown sole, black laces), a Red/Orange
Canada Goose Jacket and a Gucci baseball cap. Gardaí are still searching
for his clothes.
Gardaí have released
pictures of the clothes that Keane Mulready-Woods was wearing
The officer leading the murder investigation, Chief
Superintendent Christy Mangan, described Mulready-Woods as a child who had his
whole life ahead of him, a child who was making his way in life. However, from
a very early age Keane was drawn into the criminal gangs and clearly lost his
way in his short life.
As a juvenile he had convictions for minor drugs and road
traffic offences before moving on to serious crime. He was linked to the
Drogheda feuding gangs and a major Dublin criminal who is based on the
northside of Dublin and nicknamed 'Mr Big'.
Keane was involved in drugs, violence, intimidation and arson
attacks and last December was convicted of threatening and terrorising a family
in Co Louth.
A week before he went missing, he was officially warned by Gardaí that
his life was in danger.
Mediation attempts over the past two years have failed to
resolve the feud in Drogheda. The gangs have refused to listen to, let alone
engage with senior church leaders, the Gardaí, politicians, voluntary
organisations or community leaders. The feud is personal. It is rooted in a
vendetta. Both sides have been poisoned with vengeance.
While vengeance is driving this murderous feud, there is no
doubt that it is being fuelled by an insatiable desire for drugs, particularly
among young, educated, wealthy professionals.
Gardaí found
further human remains in a burning car in Ballybough in Dublin
This weekend will see queues of young people in pubs and
nightclubs waiting to get in to the toilet stalls to snort copious amounts of
cocaine.
This drugs economy, the criminal networks who supply them and
the people who take them have all - in the words of the officer leading the
murder investigation - "contributed to Keane’s death".
"Just look at the fall -out from you buying drugs,"
Chief Superintendent Christy Mangan said, "it's damaging our children and
our society."
The murder of Mulready-Woods is the latest act of barbarism
between the two gangs but no one with any knowledge of this feud believes it
will be the last.
Gardaí fear that each side will continue to seek to outdo
the other with acts that display a greater level of depravity and callousness.
The Gardaí say they are assiduously working to prevent this
taking place. Chief Superintendent Mangan has stressed their primary concern is
the preservation of life; their primary responsibility is to the community and
its safety.
The reality of this feud- however, as is the case in so many
aspects of organised crime worldwide, that it can only end for the participants
in one of two ways; the jail or the grave.
The Drogheda Feuding Gangs - Who's who?
There are two family based criminal gangs - rooted in
Drogheda and County Louth - with allies and associates from Coolock and north
Dublin.
Family Gang One:
Drogheda members:
- The first victim of this ongoing feud who was shot and seriously injured - left with life-changing injuries.
- A major criminal based in Gormanstown in County Louth - recently released from prison - suspected of involvement in the disappearance of Willie Maughan and Ana Varsalane.
- Keane Mulready-Wood - 17-year-old murdered and dismembered.
Coolock members:
- Son of a man who was shot dead over a decade ago seeking vengeance for his father’s murder.
- Kenneth Finn - shot dead in Coolock last year - suspected to be the gunman who shot dead leader of the Real IRA Alan Ryan in 2012.
- Mr Big - Major Dublin criminal from northside of Dublin.
Family Gang Two
Drogheda members:
- Two brothers - A man in his early 20s, suspect for the murder of Keane Mulready-Woods and main suspect for shooting the other main gang figure in the attack which left that man with life-changing injuries and started this feud.
Coolock members:
- Hitman in his 30s attacked on streets of Dublin by son of a man who believes he shot dead his father, also a suspect for Keane’s murder.
- The late Richard Carberry, drug dealer, originally from Coolock, lived in Bettystown, shot dead at his home last November.
SOURCE RTE:
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psychopath
noun madman, lunatic, maniac, psychotic, nutter (Brit. slang), basket case (slang), nutcase (slang), sociopath, headcase (informal), mental case (slang), headbanger (informal), insane person She was abducted by a dangerous psychopath.
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
What is a psychopath?
Few psychology terms stir up confusion like the word psychopath.
Even though it’s commonly used to describe someone who has a mental illness,
psychopath is not an official diagnosis.
The
true definition of a psychopath in psychiatry is antisocial personality disorder
(ASPD), explains Dr. Prakash Masand, a psychiatrist and the
founder of the Centers of Psychiatric Excellence. ASPD describes an individual who shows
patterns of manipulation and violation to others.
Masand
says the one thing that can be confusing about ASPD are the words
“anti-social.”
“Most people might assume this describes someone who is
reserved, a loner, keeps to himself, etc. However, this is not the case in
ASPD,” he explains. “When we say anti-social in ASPD, it means someone who goes
against society, rules, and other behaviours that are more commonplace.”
Common
signs of psychopathy
Since the term psychopath is not an official diagnosis, experts
refer to the signs described under ASPD. According to Masand, some of the more
common signs to be aware of include:
- socially irresponsible behavior
- disregarding or violating the rights of others
- inability to distinguish between right and wrong
- difficulty with showing remorse or empathy
- tendency to lie often
- manipulating and hurting others
- recurring problems with the law
- general disregard towards safety and responsibility
Other behaviours that may be signs of ASPD include a tendency to
take risks, reckless behaviour, and being deceitful with frequent lying.
Masand says someone exhibiting this behaviour may also lack deep
emotional connections, have a superficial charm about them, be very aggressive,
and get very angry sometimes.
Additionally, people with ASPD don’t care if they have hurt
someone, are impulsive and abusive, and lack remorse. In the case of ASPD,
abusive doesn’t necessarily mean violent.
In addition to the signs and behaviours, Masand says there are
certain traits associated with ASPD:
- More men than women have this diagnosis.
- Technically, to receive an ASPD diagnosis, you have to be 18 years of age. But some people will show signs of conduct disorder, which may be an early indicator of ASPD, as early as age 11.
- It’s a chronic condition that seems to improve with age.
- Mortality rates are higher in people with ASPD because of their behaviour.
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