News and Crime Correspondent, the Irish Sun. Co-author of the No 1 bestseller, Kinahan Assassins. john.hand@the-sun.ie / Signal: johnhand.87
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Jun 13
BREAKING: Man, 36, to appear at Carrick-on-Shannon District Court charged with the murder of Janis Balodis in Arderry, Co Leitrim on Thursday night.
Mr Balodis died after being stabbed in the chest.
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Jun 12
UPDATE: The assassin who died in a road crash while en route to carry out a hit is suspected to have been hired by a Limerick gang involved in a local feud.
The 33-year-old contract killer, a Swedish passport holder, has been identified and named.
More: thesun.ie/news/17096048/lime…
Jun 11
BREAKING: The man killed in a car crash in Limerick this week was a hired assassin on his way to carry out a hit.
Understand the hitman held a Swedish passport, loaded gun found in car & his driver who fled on foot left his phone behind.
More: thesun.ie/news/17091397/lime…
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Jun 12
BREAKING: A man has died in a suspected stabbing incident in Co Leitrim.
Understand it happened at a house at Arderry, which is near the townland of Corrawaleen.
Another man arrested at the scene.
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Jun 11
BREAKING: The man killed in a car crash in Limerick this week was a hired assassin on his way to carry out a hit.
Understand the hitman held a Swedish passport, loaded gun found in car & his driver who fled on foot left his phone behind.
More: thesun.ie/news/17091397/lime…
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Jun 10
Ballymun feud hit-&-run was planned using stolen car to target victim, 28, critical with crushed pelvis & spine injuries thesun.ie/news/17084636/gard…
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Jun 10
Fallen Kinahan chief Sean McGovern has gone back to school in Portlaoise Prison - where he is caged alongside a thug tasked with killing Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch’s brother.
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Jun 9
The car suspected to have been used in the targeted Ballymun feud hit & run this morning has been recovered.
The 28-year-old victim is fighting for his life in the Mater Hospital. He suffered a crushed pelvis, spinal injuries and punctured lungs.
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Jun 9
Gardai believe Kinahan lieutenant Sean McGovern organised the botched hit on Hutch associate Keith 'Smokey' Murtagh - a plot that left an innocent father dead in Dublin.
McGovern's 'hatred' for Murtagh & his surveillance from a van before the shooting.
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Jun 8
Kinahan thug Sean McGovern jailed for 24 years at Dublin's Special Criminal Court
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Jun 5
Juvenile male, 17, has been arrested and now in Garda custody over the fatal stabbing of innocent Qayyum Balogun in Dublin in the early hours of Monday.
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Jun 4
The chief suspect in Qayyum Balogun's murder was captured on camera fleeing the scene holding a knife. He left the country hours later.
Bloodied clothes recovered from the Airbnb he stayed in.
Female associate and pal questioned by Gardai.
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Jun 3
Wife killer Richard Satchwell living the life of loner lag behind bars earning €2.54 a day and baking thesun.ie/news/17037056/wife…
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Jun 3
Two arrests in the case confirmed. Man held over the murder. Woman is being questioned on assisting a suspected offender after the stabbing. Another violent suspect remains at large after fleeing the country.
Jun 3
Spoke this morning with the father of murder victim Qayyum Balogun at his home in Dundalk, Co Louth.
Heartbroken Ibrahim Balogun said he has lost his “best friend” as his heartbroken family tries to cope while the hunt for Qayyum’s killer continues.
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Jun 3
Spoke this morning with the father of murder victim Qayyum Balogun at his home in Dundalk, Co Louth.
Heartbroken Ibrahim Balogun said he has lost his “best friend” as his heartbroken family tries to cope while the hunt for Qayyum’s killer continues.
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Jun 3
Gardai recover suspected murder weapon in Qayyum Balogun death probe as they hunt for several suspects - including a violent thug with a number of assault convictions & who previously served jail time.
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Jun 2
First pic of club promoter, 21, stabbed to death in Dublin as pals pay tribute thesun.ie/news/17045776/qayy…
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Jun 2
The first picture of Qayyum Balogun, the 21-year-old who was stabbed to death near Grafton Street, Dublin, in the early hours of Monday.
Sources say Balogun was not involved in the violence on the night nor had any previous criminal history.
Murder probe is continuing today.
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Jun 2
A young man died after he was brutally stabbed to the chest, torso and arm when a row between two groups at a gig spilled onto the streets of the capital.
A murder investigation is continuing after Qayyum Balogun, 21, was killed in Dublin. thesun.ie/news/17041511/dubl…
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May 31
The Portlaoise logistics boss who used his own company to transport millions in cash for Ireland's top drug trafficking gang The Family.
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