Marian Lingurar Jnr: flight, false identity and the killing of John Kenny
After helping plan the robbery in which John Kenny was killed, Lingurar broke bail, fled Ireland and later returned under a false identity.
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After helping plan the robbery in which John Kenny was killed, Lingurar broke bail, fled Ireland and later returned under a false identity.
Read the winning report →A failed maritime handover exposed roughly 300kg of cocaine aboard the MV Verila and led to the statutory ten-year term.
Read case file →A Dublin Airport cocaine seizure led to imprisonment; years later the High Court rejected a challenge to the Minister’s deportation decision.
Read case file →An X-ray anomaly exposed a €489,790 cocaine load; the Brazilian courier received a three-and-a-half-year sentence.
Read case file →The Albanian teenager pleaded guilty to two Immigration Act offences and received a backdated two-month sentence.
Read case file →A false Afghan identity secured international protection and routed €43,715 in welfare payments before Akbar disclosed his genuine identity to his bank.
Read the winning report →A British-passport holder carried a Kuwaiti family’s genuine documents while the six arrived without documents and requested international protection.
Read case file →An airport check linked sequential bookings, a false Bulgarian passport and the genuine Albanian document Ahmetay was holding for his friend.
Read case file →Two simultaneous searches exposed 263 plants; a judge placed Bukantus above the hands-on gardener and imposed six years of immediate custody.
Read case file →Prolonged tailgating contributed to a 19-year-old motorcyclist losing control; Sores then left the scene and was identified months later.
Read case file →A signed deportation order led not to a reported removal but to three convictions for refusing the fingerprints needed to obtain a travel document.
Read the winning report →Cifali tracked his former partner, followed her in a blonde wig and waited outside her home with a knife before inflicting life-threatening injuries.
Read case file →The former Afghan teacher overpowered and sexually assaulted a vulnerable 16-year-old in a Sligo alley before giving her pizza.
Read case file →Revenue profiling exposed cannabis in two locked suitcases carried from Thailand, with three distinct weight and valuation stages in the public record.
Read case file →Ben Salah broke free during an airport handover to Spanish police; a second European Arrest Warrant operation also failed.
Read case file →An unprovoked attack on a woman jogging exposed convictions under multiple identities and a record stretching across Ireland, Britain and France.
Read the winning report →Six false birth registrations enabled Irish citizenship and passport applications before a participant’s disclosure triggered a records investigation.
Read case file →Phone evidence and surveillance placed him above the two men who physically handled 36kg of cannabis hidden inside lorry wheels.
Read case file →A UK backpacker flew from Thailand carrying 48 vacuum-packed bags of cannabis destined for Donegal.
Read case file →Turano used his real details and returned to Dublin Airport for delayed luggage containing 14.7kg of cannabis.
Read case file →Five county court reports trace more than €12,009 in goods and a record that progressed from no priors stated to 12 convictions within months.
Read the winning report →A suitcase burst before the baggage belt. Burke then waited for and collected bags not bearing his name containing more than 35kg of cannabis.
Read case file →Cash in three currencies was concealed among food and sanitary products. The public record names neither the supplier nor destination.
Read case file →He worked under his genuine name while continuing to collect jobseeker payments through the identity he said he used to enter Ireland.
Read case file →One day after arriving from Birmingham, he drove three visits to a Tallaght house and helped the attackers escape after the final visit.
Read case file →He attacked his former partner in her Kerry bedroom with a long kitchen knife. She survived after his son intervened.
Read the winning report →He stole guitars, groceries, alcohol and a debit card from Peter Robinson’s home while or after the 77-year-old’s body remained there.
Read case file →Fingerprints and CCTV tied him to a Lucan ATM device. He twice disappeared after warrants and later surrendered after seven years abroad.
Read case file →Ireland made removal and exclusion orders while Poland sought him to serve three sentences. He was eventually surrendered under a European Arrest Warrant.
Read case file →He asked for one last chance during removal proceedings and claimed rehabilitation, then received further theft and criminal-damage sentences.
Read case file →A boiling-water assault was followed by two sexual assaults. The latest five-year term begins only after the earlier sentences expire.
Read the winning report →A completed removal decision was stayed through litigation the High Court later found should never have been brought. He disappeared after release.
Read case file →The Chinese-born Irish citizen planned an attack on a rival business. The fire spread through an entire Longford commercial complex.
Read case file →He tried to seize a car with two children inside, hijacked another, knocked down a taxi driver and assaulted Gardaí and hospital staff.
Read case file →Revenue found 13.9kg of cocaine in a hidden compartment after the British driver brought the vehicle through Dublin Port.
Read case file →He forced his partner into a car boot and subjected her to a prolonged assault. The State increased his sentence on appeal, and the Supreme Court unanimously upheld it.
Read the winning report →CCTV and forensic evidence supported three jury convictions after an intoxicated woman was attacked in a Letterkenny alley.
Read case file →He followed a woman for around 30 minutes before assaulting her. A passer-by and Garda foot patrol intervened.
Read case file →Garda surveillance exposed cocaine concealed behind a vehicle’s radio. Three explanations he gave were contradicted by Garda evidence and CCTV.
Read case file →He admitted nine offences involving €9,745 in unrecovered losses after earlier theft convictions in Britain, Austria and Italy.
Read case file →He followed Seamus Bell and felled him with one unprovoked punch. Court reporting disclosed 13 prior foreign convictions, including two rapes and a sexual assault.
Read the winning report →A €200 bogus passport produced a false PPS number and claims worth an accepted €85,000–€97,407.24. His three-year term survived appeal.
Read case file →The Polish cage fighter’s murder and false-imprisonment convictions were upheld as safe in 2018. A December 2026 application remains pending and has not displaced them.
Read case file →The Lithuanian national also had convictions in Lithuania and Britain before a jury convicted him of attacking, raping and threatening a woman in Dublin.
Read case file →He travelled with women, arranged accommodation and facilitated their journeys. His conspiracy plea was accepted on the precise basis of recklessness.
Read case file →The UK national used a fabricated terminal diagnosis to obtain welfare after earlier fraud convictions in Britain and Ireland.
Read the winning report →The Polish national stabbed a woman through the neck, changed clothes and committed two more knife robberies that night.
Read case file →An invasive assault on an unconscious woman initially produced a wholly suspended sentence until the DPP appealed.
Read case file →A jury rejected the Albanian national’s claim that he went to a drug-loaded car merely to collect two tyres.
Read case file →The Lithuanian national was found tending a second grow house before the first cultivation case had even been sentenced.
Read case file →Listed as a cook and cleaner, the Dutch national was found to be the Dubai crime group’s eyes and ears aboard the MV Matthew.
Read the winning report →The Iranian-born Rotterdam resident provided land logistics for an international cell using a modified stealth speedboat.
Read case file →The Polish transport-company owner knowingly carried €618,850 of cannabis for a promised €2,500 payment.
Read case file →The organised-crime cash collector used photographs of his clothes and a banknote serial number to verify the exchange.
Read case file →The US national obtained his first passport three days before travelling to Dublin with €424,000 of cannabis attributed to him.
Read case file →About one month after arriving for a UCD master’s, the Indian national began targeting women at work, at home, on campus and in public.
Read the winning report →The Lithuanian national graduated from repeated fuel thefts to a wrong-way motorway chase and drug dealing while on bail.
Read case file →A sniffer dog identified two bags carrying €597,048 in cannabis; the Canadian courier expected a €2,000 reward.
Read case file →Immigration officers found two fellow passengers’ passports in his luggage, yet both men later disappeared after leaving Dublin Airport.
Read case file →The Nigerian-born Irish citizen facilitated money laundering through three accounts after 11 prior convictions.
Read case file →The Lithuanian former soldier selected a stranger for robbery, cut her throat, tried to break her neck, fled across Europe and lost his sentence appeal.
Read the winning report →The Dublin businessman used Irish retail infrastructure in a counterfeit-device warranty scheme after an earlier UK false-passport prison term.
Read case file →The Georgian national used messaging apps, false identities and ordinary post to distribute documents facilitating unlawful entry across Europe.
Read case file →Two older brothers were tied, threatened and beaten during a planned aggravated burglary; Hainal had 18 prior convictions reported at sentence.
Read case file →The Romanian national’s record included a serious assault on a schoolgirl and an indecent in-flight offence before his reported removal.
Read case file →The Ukrainian taxi driver abused a vulnerable passenger, lost his criminal appeal and later left Ireland in compliance with a deportation order whose effect was upheld by the Supreme Court.
Read the winning report →The stateless organised-crime figure used false identities to turn eight leased Dublin properties into brothels while €320,000 passed through associated accounts.
Read case file →The Slovakian national exploited an intoxicated teenager, showed no remorse and received three years plus two years of post-release supervision.
Read case file →The Romanian repeat offender ignored repeated refusals, sexually assaulted Stephen Markham twice and later failed to appear for sentencing.
Read case file →The British healthcare assistant paid for the journey and supplied a Swedish passport belonging to somebody else before the Somali woman claimed asylum at Dublin Airport.
Read case file →The Algerian asylum seeker attacked two women within two days, later received separate six-year and ten-year terms, and was described by the sentencing judge as a serial rapist.
Read the winning report →The Brazilian-origin man repeatedly raped a 17-year-old held and moved between remote locations; his four convictions produced a 19-year active term whose severity appeal remains reserved.
Read case file →The Penneys security guard isolated a 15-year-old stopped over €2.50 of goods, made her strip, sexually assaulted her and demanded €250.
Read case file →The Ukrainian national arrived roughly two weeks before the unprovoked Ballyogan attack, left Ireland after charge and was identified after returning.
Read case file →The Spanish national admitted travelling solely to mix, package and deliver almost ten kilograms of drugs for a promised €5,000 payment.
Read case file →The Slovak native knew the girl was 16, encouraged her drinking, raped her in a Roscommon park, left Ireland and had to be extradited back under a European Arrest Warrant.
Read the winning report →The Nigerian national trafficked and coerced women into prostitution through debt demands, threats and ritual oaths; the Court of Appeal increased her sentence to seven and a half years.
Read case file →The Romanian national sexually assaulted a three-year-old boy at a Dublin homeless hub, left for Britain two days later and was ultimately returned under a European Arrest Warrant.
Read case file →The Moldovan national threatened his sister’s partner and inflicted a 13-centimetre knife wound; the jury rejected murder but unanimously convicted him of manslaughter.
Read case file →The Portuguese national diverted a 19-year-old Leaving Cert student to his apartment, sexually assaulted her and later tried to withdraw his guilty plea.
Read case file →The English career criminal came to Ireland, served two years for 16 burglaries and then murdered, raped and falsely imprisoned Mary Duffy; the report also separates that conviction from the unprosecuted killing of Elizabeth Plunkett.
Read the winning report →The Afghan national arrived through an irregular overland journey and lived in direct provision before sexually assaulting a young woman on the Luas and ejaculating on her clothes.
Read case file →The Bolivian student-visa entrant had accumulated 19 convictions and was on bail following an adult sexual-assault conviction when he sexually assaulted a sleeping four-year-old boy.
Read case file →The Nigerian man lured a stranger away from a pub with a false offer of a lift, raped her and fled when a passer-by intervened; his protection appeal remained pending at sentencing.
Read case file →The Nigerian-born former model carried a sleeping fellow student into a Limerick bedroom; she awoke during the rape, and he later returned voluntarily from Britain to face Garda questioning.
Read case file →The Georgian former karate champion lived illegally under a false Polish identity before sexually assaulting an incapacitated 18-year-old at two Cork locations.
Read the winning report →The Dutch national killed his flatmate, cleaned the scene, emptied bank accounts and moved across Europe before surrendering in Rome and returning to face trial.
Read case file →The Romanian national choked and sexually attacked a stranger in a Dublin cul-de-sac until Gardaí, alerted by a resident who heard screams, physically pulled him off her.
Read case file →The Bangladesh-born religious teacher sexually assaulted a six-year-old girl; after his release within days, the appeal court ruled the original term unduly lenient and imposed 4½ years.
Read case file →The Romanian-born attacker launched an unprovoked assault on two English tourists, leaving one in an induced coma for three weeks and with lasting brain-injury effects.
Read case file →The Polish national had four prior convictions, including attempted rape, before ambushing a woman months after arriving in Ireland and subjecting her to 40 minutes of sexual violence.
Read the winning report →The Nigerian-origin healthcare assistant raped a highly vulnerable 73-year-old resident during lockdown; later safeguarding reviews examined how earlier warnings were handled.
Read case file →The Brazilian rickshaw driver raped and grievously injured an intoxicated woman, abandoned her between parked vehicles and went back drinking.
Read case file →The American actor was released pending a charging decision after choking and raping a 19-year-old woman; US marshals arrested him six years later.
Read case file →The Brazilian national fatally stabbed James Banville after pursuing men who had assaulted and abused him; the jury convicted manslaughter, not murder.
Read case file →The Algerian national bludgeoned his estranged wife with a kettlebell, locked her inside for nine hours, fled through Paris and was returned from Germany.
Read the winning report →The Polish national hid Natalia Karaczyn’s body in woodland, maintained false accounts through seven Garda interviews and was convicted of murder at retrial.
Read case file →The Lithuanian national was identified through an English DNA database, absconded before trial and had to be returned under a European Arrest Warrant.
Read case file →The Hungarian national stabbed his estranged wife, cut his son and chased him with an axe before giving a departure undertaking tied to his suspended sentence.
Read case file →The Lithuanian national confined and repeatedly sexually attacked a woman; his 11-year active term runs after an existing drugs sentence.
Read case file →The Coventry-born career criminal drove over champion boxer Kevin Sheehy three times, received life and was later transferred to England after the State cited security risks.
Read the winning report →The Brazilian national was unanimously convicted of murdering Bruno Lemes de Sousa and leaving his bound body in a Kerry bog drain.
Read case file →The Indian national promised two women ecstasy, gave them sedating antidepressants and raped both after an earlier US battery conviction involving a sleeping woman.
Read case file →The Hungarian former military pilot used his specialist skills to fly 60kg of heroin through Europe into Weston Airport.
Read case file →The Somali national admitted four counts of assisting unlawful entry after women arrived using genuine diplomatic passports issued to other people.
Read case file →The Brazilian entered on a holiday visa, remained after a deportation order and organised an armed mission to shoot at an Offaly house.
Read the winning report →The Polish national helped imprison and torture a man before putting him in a burning car; the Court of Appeal increased his sentence to nine years.
Read case file →Gardaí found more than €1.08 million in the Ukrainian national’s Dublin bedroom and elsewhere upstairs; a judge called him a vital cog.
Read case file →The Polish national committed the offence while on bail for another assault and was placed on the Sex Offenders Register for ten years.
Read case file →The Latvian native ignored Garda advice, lay in wait and chased his victim across a busy street before a second jury convicted him of murder.
Read case file →The Romanian national caused £330,000 damage in Belfast, was arrested awaiting UK deportation, then committed another arson in St Michan’s crypt five years later.
Read the winning report →A quashed murder conviction and two hung retrial juries preceded the Serbian-born Hungarian national’s final manslaughter plea and 11-year sentence.
Read case file →Pathology contradicted the Polish national’s emergency-call account that Maciej Nowak had injured himself; a manslaughter plea and six years followed.
Read case file →Surveillance showed the Romanian-born claimant walking unaided and lifting his wheelchair; the claim cost €40,000 to fight before a later deception conviction.
Read case file →The Romanian national used eight identities for 17 accounts, was extradited after similar UK convictions and was ordered to leave Ireland after release.
Read case file →The South African-born Irish citizen faced two murder trials and two appeals, served 15 years and two months, then received six months for criminal damage while still on a life licence.
Read the winning report →The Latvian national killed a Garda complainant, concealed his body and fled through Britain before eventually receiving mandatory life in Ireland.
Read case file →After UK deportation and 24 recorded convictions, the Romanian national was caught with 60 cloned cards inside a sophisticated international fraud operation.
Read case file →A Cessna arrived tail-heavy with 60 kilograms of heroin hidden inside; the Hungarian national was treated as a planner and received ten years.
Read case file →The Polish national attacked a chef and off-duty Garda, was deported with a two-year exclusion requirement, and returned almost immediately.
Read case file →The Pakistani graduate arrived only months before a five-attack campaign; an undertaking to return to Pakistan later checked a harsher appellate sentence.
Read the winning report →Four months after returning to Ireland, Andruska murdered Jolanta and Enrika Lubiene; a unanimous jury convicted and every appeal ground failed.
Read case file →Phone, DNA and CCTV evidence persuaded an 11–1 jury despite no recovered weapon, known murder scene, confession or established motive.
Read case file →Four Romanian convictions preceded a Mater Hospital cleaning job and persistent online targeting of children in Ireland.
Read case file →Eight previous convictions preceded the daytime attack on a receptionist; six immediate years and a dismissed sentence appeal followed.
Read case file →Bangu brought a teenage girl from Zambia on a false passport, was convicted of four rapes in Wexford and lost his conviction appeal.
Read the winning report →A majority murder verdict, dismissed Court of Appeal case and refused Supreme Court leave preceded an authorised sentence transfer to Poland.
Read case file →A 10–2 jury convicted the Polish national of murder; the Court of Appeal dismissed every ground and the Supreme Court refused leave.
Read case file →A copied key and masked home invasion led to three rape convictions; the convictions survived appeal and the final fixed term was 18 years.
Read case file →Almost €60,000 moved through Muntean’s accounts while PUP for six other recipients was paid in; guilty pleas brought three immediate years.
Read case file →Larisa Serban called emergency services after violence less than two weeks before Blanaru murdered her; ten earlier convictions were reported across Ireland and France.
Read the winning report →A contested fitness process ended in a judicial capacity ruling, guilty plea and mandatory life sentence for an intentional, planned murder.
Read case file →Gaizutis admitted killing Audrius Butkus but contested murder; a unanimous jury convicted and the Court of Appeal upheld the verdict.
Read case file →The first life sentence did not stand; a retrial produced the final manslaughter conviction and seven effective years.
Read case file →A unanimous jury rejected murder but found that Phillips used excessive force in purported self-defence.
Read case file →An attempted-murder conviction and 11 Irish convictions preceded Ioan Artene Bob’s murder; a mandatory life sentence and dismissed appeal followed.
Read the winning report →Almost 2,000 messages preceded Bruna Fonseca’s murder; a unanimous jury convicted Pacheco and mandatory life followed.
Read case file →The Romanian national dragged a woman walking to work into a park, sexually assaulted her and threatened to kill her.
Read case file →After concealment, flight and a false name, Juknevicus admitted his role in a large operation and received five-and-a-half immediate years.
Read case file →Phone evidence placed Vidutis inside the Castlebellingham operation for six weeks; he pleaded guilty and received three years.
Read case file →Intelligence triggered a one-day Irish surveillance operation, an armed arrest and a conspiracy conviction; after prison he was extradited and later convicted of murder in Lithuania.
Read the winning report →Six false Danish identities opened 18 Irish accounts before Dutch custody, extradition and seven effective Irish years.
Read case file →A record across Italy and France preceded an organised three-premises campaign causing at least €70,000 in reported damage.
Read case file →After more than 25 years in Ireland, Hamzi raped Elena O’Brien when she sought to end their marriage.
Read case file →Kang arrived from Hong Kong days before the seizure and admitted possessing criminal proceeds; he received seven years.
Read case file →After a major laundering and false-identity case, Scintei was caught in a similar operation targeting 43 cash machines only eight months after release.
Read the winning report →The unanimous murder conviction survived appeal; sentence enforcement was transferred to Romania and a 2023 conditional-release bid failed.
Read case file →The attempted-murder conviction and sentence appeals both failed after an attack that left Joanna Benko needing lifelong care.
Read case file →A trusted family friend used years of access to abuse two young sisters, resulting in 24 sexual-assault convictions and one attempted-rape conviction.
Read case file →Hussein entered through Belfast, used a false identity to conceal his British status and obtained an Irish social-protection card and payments.
Read case file →DNA joined five random attacks across six years; three juries convicted him and the latest reported Court of Appeal challenge failed in April 2026.
Read the winning report →One final murder conviction, two concealment convictions and two bodies dumped in the River Bandon on successive nights.
Read case file →Flight from pending British cases preceded the Dublin seizure of firearm components, assembly material and child sexual abuse material.
Read case file →Twenty-seven Czech and Belgian convictions preceded his arrival in Ireland, rape and murder, life sentence, prisoner transfer and permanent exclusion.
Read case file →The State removed the convicted rapist to Latvia, then lost his challenge because its decision and review procedures breached basic fairness.
Read case file →After a sexual-assault conviction in Britain, Uddin came to Ireland, secured refugee status and attacked two women on consecutive nights in Sligo.
Read the winning report →A prior attempted-rape sentence in London preceded an asylum claim in Ireland, the attempted murder of his wife and the murder of their eight-year-old daughter.
Read case file →Nicholescu murdered and dismembered Frankie Dunne, fled through Belfast and Edinburgh, and was returned from Romania under a European Arrest Warrant.
Read case file →Shamel murdered Geila Ibram in Limerick, fled to Belfast and received a life sentence in Northern Ireland under cross-border jurisdiction legislation.
Read case file →Strojek’s prior record included assault and threats before a sequence of Irish offences against his former husband, a paramedic and his partner.
Read case file →Misfiled appeals, unenforced bail conditions and repeat offending preceded the fatal hit-and-run; fourteen years later, the State formally apologised.
Read the winning report →One day after entering Ireland, the cross-border serial thief selected Mrs Hanrahan; a 100,000-hour CCTV investigation ultimately returned him for trial.
Read case file →A child mentor, two convictions, 23 character references and an appellate finding of red flags indicating abnormal sexual interest in children.
Read case file →The completed chronology runs from the assault of a Leaving Cert teenager to imprisonment, an exclusion order and removal from Ireland.
Read case file →A woman suffered a brain bleed and PTSD after a sustained beating and admitted rape threat; Godla had four earlier convictions.
Read case file →Resettled in Ireland aged six, Palani later targeted gay Irish men living alone, murdered Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee and permanently blinded Anthony Burke in one eye.
Read the winning report →A unanimous eight-count conviction followed the five-property sequence and rape of a sleeping woman in Cork.
Read case file →A recorded three-stage attack involved attempted smothering, burning and choking before an effective five-year prison term.
Read case file →Kedagh Moore was left dying near his home; hours later Silaghi blamed a deer or rock for the extensive damage to his van.
Read case file →Prior Polish convictions, failed European arrest warrants and a withdrawn Justice removal proposal followed a seven-year immediate sentence.
Read case file →Granted refugee status in the month of the rape, assessed as a high reoffending risk, released under supervision and later reported granted residence because he could not be returned to Eritrea.
Read the winning report →A ten-minute pursuit and repeated stabbing in State-provided accommodation, followed by a court departure condition whose compliance remains publicly unverified.
Read case file →A lengthy criminal record preceded a fatal beating, a majority murder verdict and mandatory life imprisonment.
Read case file →Ingrida Maciokaite was murdered in front of the couple’s young child; the unanimous conviction survived appeal.
Read case file →Hundreds of decoders were tied to an estimated €746,760 loss to Sky, while a separate prosecution concerned €63,049 in drugs.
Read case file →The court recorded an unverifiable identity, a destroyed false Swedish passport, three earlier refusals and an Irish claim still undecided at sentencing.
Read the winning report →He arrived less than three weeks after release for raping a minor, committed aggravated sexual assault and was later reported removed on a Romanian charter.
Open the case file →Two episodes of violence, an obstructed ambulance call and a criminal record accumulated over more than fifteen years in Ireland.
Open the case file →Both attacks occurred before his first conviction. Defence later told court that deportation orders were in place for eventual release.
Open the case file →A unanimous murder verdict, mandatory life sentence and Court of Appeal rejection of a provocation argument that contradicted his trial defence.
Open the case file →A similar prior attack, movement through Romania and Britain, two aggravated sexual assaults in Ireland and an unanswered cross-border information question.
Read the winning report →The Algerian national had relevant assault and knife-possession convictions before joining an attack that nearly reached the victim’s spine.
Open the case file →A deportation order was made while false-name payments continued. He left voluntarily, was refused re-entry, then returned on a holiday visa.
Open the case file →The victim escaped onto a roof despite a collapsed lung and severe blood loss. No case-specific EU Removal Order has been reported.
Open the case file →A jury conviction produced six years’ immediate custody. Reporting does not establish his immigration permission or any deportation process.
Open the case file →The State knew his serious record and executed an exclusion order. He defeated it within weeks, returned to Ireland and accumulated another group of victims.
Read the winning report →A deportation application preceded release from custody, abandonment of the asylum process, 22 Irish convictions and a ten-year aggravated-sexual-assault sentence.
Open the case file →He claimed murdered Kerry woman Catherine Corridan as his mother and used a real Frenchman’s identity. Belgian authorities eventually raised the alarm.
Open the case file →A deliberately aimed, full-force kick to the head on O’Connell Street produced an effective five-and-a-half-year sentence.
Open the case file →Gardaí arrested him at the scene and DNA was recovered, but his guilty plea came on the scheduled trial date five years later.
Open the case file →An official Court of Appeal judgment documents the recycled papers, eight Spanish convictions and the loss of State contact with all thirteen passengers within a day.
Read the winning report →DNA and CCTV dismantled his changing account after a calculated attack that produced an effective eleven-year sentence.
Open the case file →Ireland’s first labour-exploitation trafficking convictions followed an operation that controlled passports, bank cards and wages for almost three years.
Open the case file →The HSE admitted it should have suspended Kila promptly and that its failure added to the victim’s suffering.
Open the case file →A 2017 facial match took six years to produce an arrest; fingerprint work identified Parker before his eventual removal to the United States.
Open the case file →An approved High Court judgment records his 2011 Irish arrest, bail absconding and years at large before the Mountmellick cocaine operation.
Read the winning report →Six earlier similar convictions, another offence against a postoperative patient and an operative deportation order whose public outcome remains unknown.
Open the case file →Previously deported from Britain, Qema used false documents and Ireland as a route for at least twelve illegal arrivals.
Open the case file →A two-hour bedroom attack, filmed abuse and a next-day flight booking produced an effective nine-year sentence.
Open the case file →After approximately sixteen years in Ireland, the Ghanaian national received six and a half years while the order’s chronology remained undisclosed.
Open the case file →Britain had convicted, registered, deported and barred him. Ireland admitted him, he remained unregistered, and an 18-year-old was raped fourteen days later.
Read the winning report →Two planned hotel attacks in Portlaoise and Galway, separated by eleven hours, produced a 20-year sentence upheld on appeal.
Open the case file →Ten rural properties, false Italian identity papers, €788,982 in proceeds and an effective nine-year sentence.
Open the case file →An unidentified profile after a 2016 rape matched a second attack in 2019 before an Austrian DNA record identified the offender.
Open the case file →He arrived with attempted-rape, robbery and assault convictions; the Court of Appeal later increased his Irish sentence.
Open the case file →Two documented attacks on women, a failed post-release departure condition, repeated notification breaches and the removal that finally came more than two years later.
Read the winning report →The random attack, false account, unanimous verdict, mandatory life sentence, final appeal outcome and continuing custody cost.
Open the case file →A homeless woman raped at knifepoint, a 15-year-old exploited and no visible removal decision after an extraordinary record.
Open the case file →The Dodaj brothers and Daniel Afedoaei retrieved 60kg of cocaine while under Garda surveillance; one defendant was already on bail for laundering €160,000.
Open the case file →Three victims aged 61, 69 and 74, departure after charge, arrest in Germany, extradition and unanswered foreign-record questions.
Open the case file →Arrived in 2013. Raped and sexually assaulted a student in 2016. Sentenced in 2018. Lost his appeals. Released in January 2024. Raped another woman in February 2025. A dated chronology, criminal record, deportation questions and a directly supportable post-sentence prison-space cost floor of about €478,000.
Open the case file →Two teenage twin sisters and the passer-by who intervened were attacked with a broken bottle. The guilty pleas, custody record, entry gap and sentencing date.
Open the case file →Jury convictions for directing a criminal organisation and laundering proceeds from romance fraud, smishing and other scams through Irish accounts.
Open the case file →The invented “Neil Turner”, 800 pages of messages, ten transfers, a Dubai trip and three prison sentences.
Open the case file →Duplicate SIMs, intercepted password resets and dozens of raided accounts. The method, admissions, sentence and system cost.
Open the case file →A Bank of Ireland employee managed mules and accounts for organised crime, fled on bail, was extradited and jailed.
Open the case file →Send court reports, judgments, official records or corrections to contact@remigration.ie.