THE hunt was on last night for three members of a notorious criminal gang following a shoot-out at an isolated border county cottage and the discovery of a frightening arsenal of weapons.
As armed gardaí, air support and sniffer dogs descended on the quiet Co Cavan village of Virginia yesterday, a search of the cottage revealed an arsenal of more than 20 rifles, shotguns, sawn-off shotguns and handguns along with telescopic sights and a large quantity of ammunition.
A garda helicopter hovered over the countryside, helping search for at least three and possibly four armed fugitives who fled the scene of the shootout.
The focus of the hunt later switched to a wood in Kells, Co Meath, following the discovery of a stolen white Citreon van, registration 94 D 47198, believed to have been used as a getaway vehicle.
Six people were questioned last night after a series of captures and raids following Monday night’s dramatic events, when a routine break-in report led gardaí to the hideout and main arms dump of a Dublin crime gang known as the Westies.
It all began with a call to Bailieboro Garda Station before 10pm on Monday.
An off-duty garda, who lives just minutes away in Virginia, was asked to check reports of a break-in at the farmhouse.
Suspicious after spotting a broken window, he let himself into the house and was confronted by five men.
They attempted to bundle him into their car and escape.
At that point, a second patrol, an armed detective sergeant and one other garda, arrived at the scene.
Chief Superintendent Michael Finnegan, who is heading the search for the fugitives, said two of the suspects were grabbed when the back-up arrived.
Then a sixth appeared and fired off at least one round from a handgun. Fire was then returned.
In the confusion, five of the six managed to escape but one, a 28-year-old man, was held and arrested.
A search was launched and one man was arrested in Virginia while a third was found hiding in a graveyard early yesterday morning. Gardaí also carried out a raid on what one source said was the Navan home of “known associates” of the gang. Three people were arrested.
The fugitives are believed to be members of the northwest Dublin gang, which is suspected of being involved in a recent series of raids in the Louth/Meath area.
One of the leaders of the gang was reported to have moved to Cavan recently.
Gardaí are also investigating whether they were involved in the raid on a gun dealer’s home in north Co Dublin last week.
John Walls, his wife Philomena and their son were tied up as four masked men ransacked their home and stole 14 shotguns, a rifle and ammunition.
Ballistics experts are checking whether any of the arms found in the Co Cavan farmhouse match those stolen in the Balbriggan burglary.
Routine check ends in gunfire
SHORTLY before 10pm on Monday gardaí at Bailieboro receive a call about a suspected break-in at a farmhouse in Virginia. They make an unsuccessful attempt to contact the Dublin-based owner of the house.
Minutes later, a garda based in Kells station, who lives in the village, is asked to check out the report and is told another unit from Bailieboro, including an armed detective sergeant, is on the way.
AT 10.15PM, the garda, checking the house, finds a window broken and decides to go in to investigate. He is confronted by five men. The garda is grabbed and brought outside to a waiting car. As the gang attempt to bundle him into the car, a second garda patrol arrives. In the confusion, the three gardaí manage to grab two of the men.
A sixth man arrives and fires one or two shots either in the direction of the gardaí or into the air. The detective sergeant fires back. Five of the men flee in different directions, but one is held by the first garda to arrive at the scene. A full-scale search operation is launched.
OVERNIGHT, gardaí carry out searches of the surrounding area. One person, believed to be a male, is arrested in Virginia. A search of the house at the centre of the shoot-out reveals a large amount of ammunition. A van is stolen from a garage just outside the village.
AT DAYBREAK, the garda helicopter is scrambled as teams of armed gardaí and sniffer dogs descend on the quiet village. A third person, again believed to be a male, is discovered hiding in a graveyard in the area and arrested. Three people, one man and two women, are arrested at a house in Navan.
YESTERDAY, the search for at least three, possibly four, suspects continued and widened beyond Co Cavan. Scenes of crime officers carried out a forensic examination of the house. The six arrested are questioned at stations in Navan, Ashbourne, Kells and Monaghan. An appeal for information about a stolen white Citroen van is issued.
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Gardaí fear crime boss seeking revenge for killing
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August 24 2005, 12:50 PM
Thursday, August 21, 2003
Gardaí fear crime boss seeking revenge for killing
By Cormac O’Keeffe
GARDAÍ were yesterday hunting down a fugitive gang boss believed to have returned to the country to avenge the murder of an associate.Armed detectives are preparing for an escalation in gang warfare following the killing of criminal Bernard Sugg in west Dublin last Sunday.
Bernard Sugg's brother, Stephen, has also returned from Spain where he had fled following an attempt on his life.
Gardaí have identified Stephen Sugg as a member of the notorious Westies gang, which is based in the Corduff and Mulhuddart areas of west Dublin.
But detectives said they were not going to pick him up as he was not wanted in relation to any charges or criminal investigations.
However, gardaí are eager to arrest one of the two leaders of the gang, who has reportedly sneaked back into the country.
The crime boss, the enforcer of the outfit, fled to Northern Ireland following a shoot-out with gardaí in Co Cavan last May. This individual has ordered, and in many cases, personally carried out, some of the most appalling acts of violence seen by detectives.
Officers at a number of garda stations were yesterday searching for the runaway criminal. They are checking out several reported sightings at addresses known to be associated with him and his family.
Gardaí in Blanchardstown were not involved in the search, as the criminal is thought to be in neighbouring counties, and not in Dublin.
"There would be a fear of retaliation, especially given the people we are talking about. We are hoping to prevent any further incidents," said a garda source.
"If they are both back that quickly they are preparing for revenge. People are terrified," said another local source.
Despite an intensive and long-running operation by local gardaí no one has ever testified against the leaders, such is the notoriety of the Westies.
The Westies are heavily involved in heroin dealing, armed robberies, theft and protection rackets.
Gardaí are carrying out surveillance on known members of the gang as well as on possible suspects behind the murder of Bernard Sugg, a known criminal.
One of the main suspects is a gang, based in Crumlin, south Dublin, which has been involved in an ongoing feud with the Westies their former business partners.
The Crumlin gang also has members located in the Raheny and Kilbarrack area of north Dublin as well as in Finglas, which is close to Blanchardstown.
The Westies are suspected of being behind the murder of Raheny drug dealer Paul Ryan in Co Offaly in April.
Gardaí at Blanchardstown yesterday said investigations were at an early stage and that no one suspect had been identified.
Bernard Sugg's funeral is expected to take place today or tomorrow.
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Gardaí suspicious of rumours that two ‘Westies’ gang leaders have been assassinated
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August 24 2005, 1:00 PM
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Gardaí suspicious of rumours that two ‘Westies’ gang leaders have been assassinated in Spain
By Cormac O’Keeffe
GARDAÍ are investigating unconfirmed reports that the two leaders of a notorious Dublin gang had been killed in Spain, but senior officers stressed the reports were only rumours.The two leaders of the Westies gang, based in the Blanchardstown area of north-west Dublin, have been on the run since last summer.
Detectives and local sources in the Mulhuddart and Corduff areas of Blanchardstown suspect the rumours may be part of a ploy by the Westies to get their rivals to drop their guard.
The Westies are eager to avenge the murder of Bernard ‘Verb’ Sugg last August, a brother of one of the leaders.
The gang suspected of carrying out the murder, originally from the nearby area of Clonsilla, are under constance surveillance by local gardaí.
“It’s a rumour, but that’s exactly what it is, a rumour. It would be very convenient if both of them were dead,” said one garda source.
It’s not the first time rumours have spread about the gang leaders. Last Christmas, reports circulated that one of them had been shot, which turned out not to be the case.
One senior garda yesterday said that they were in contact with Europol to try and find out if there was any truth to the story.
One of the leaders is thought to own two pubs and a restaurant in Alicante, Spain.
Gardaí yesterday said that intelligence would suggest that the duo have been in the Alicante area.
The Westies gang are still active in west Dublin, involved in the theft of high-powered cars and drug dealing.
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Port city may have been the last resort for criminals
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August 24 2005, 1:05 PM
Thursday, February 12, 2004
Port city may have been the last resort for criminals
By Cormac O’Keeffe and John Breslin
BAKING in the Mediterranean sun, Alicante, on Spain’s Costa Blanca, is a popular destination for Irish holidaymakers.The port city, with a population of 300,000, sandwiched between the mountains and the sea, swells in the summer as millions use it as a gateway to holiday destinations on the coast.
Travel guides urge visitors to browse through the covered market stalls by day and enjoy the Alicantino wine and the tapas at night.
But its popularity has brought with it a price the city and hinterland now has one of the highest crime rates in Spain. It soared last year. It doesn't need the likes of Shane Coates and Stephen Sugg, two of many Irish criminals who have fled to the sunshine of Alicante, Andalucia and the Costa Del Sol to the south.
Gardaí are still checking rumours that Coates, leader of the Westies crime gang in Blanchardstown, west Dublin, and his sidekick, Sugg, have been kidnapped, and possibly murdered, near Alicante.
Neither of the men's families have contacted gardaí yet, despite reports that members of the Coates family have been to Alicante.
Some relatives of the two families yesterday said the first they heard about it was in the newspapers.
Police in Alicante and nearby Benidorm have told local media they do not know anything about the alleged incident.
One senior garda yesterday said: "This fella out in Alicante said that Coates and Sugg were trying to settle a drugs debt with another gang and that they were bundled into a car."
But he added: "There is no hard evidence. The report is unconfirmed and unsubstantiated."
It's understood that Coates and Suggs were living with or near to a family from Blanchardstown who own a villa in the Alicante area. It's claimed that one or more of these friends saw the Westies being bundled into a car and driven off.
It is reported that the Westies were trying to settle a debt with a gang over a drugs deal.
A garda in Blanchardstown said while something may have happened they don't know exactly what.
"We have an unconfirmed report. We have nothing to back it up one way or the other. It appears something of some substance took place, but what exactly we don't know."
The pair are thought to have fled to Spain after a shoot-out with gardaí at a house in County Cavan. They are believed to have gone to the North and then made their way to Spain.
They have plenty of Irish company in Alicante and other parts of southern Spain, most of them law-abiding, second-home owners. But the area is also home to some high-profile Irish criminals, attracted not so much by the weather, but by the chance to become involved in large-scale drug-dealing and the opportunity to hide their loot from the Criminal Assets. Millions have been ploughed into apartments, restaurants and bars.
The Irish in Spain can swap stories with an international criminal brigade from, among other places, Russia, Colombia and north Africa. There are also an estimated 200 British criminals there.
Liam Judge, an underworld fixer who died in his Spanish villa in Spain in December, lived in Alicante with the daughter of John Gilligan.
Andalucia, less well known than the neighbouring Costa Del Sol, is also growing in popularity. Resorts in Almeira are favoured by Irish criminals such as John Traynor, who fled Ireland after the murder of Veronica Guerin and hotly denies claims he set her up.
John Cunningham, who kidnapped Jennifer Guinness in 1986 and walked out of Shelton Abbey prison in County Wicklow in 1996, is said to have invested up to 5 million in a villa, apartments and hotel on the Costa Del Sol.
Seamus Ward, from Walkinstown in Dublin, who has lived abroad since 1996, is also believed to be on the Costa Del Sol. He was named in court some years ago as a member of a gang importing large amounts of cannabis in to Ireland. That gang is believed to have been led by 37-year-old Peter Mitchell. Now based in Fuengirola, Spain, Mitchell is still wanted for questioning by the gardaí.
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ONE doubting detective has called it The Spanish Job. The rumoured abduction of the notorious Westies in Alicante could be a con job.That’s the fear among a number of gardaí who have had long dealings with Shane Coates and Stephen Sugg, the two leaders of the Westies crime gang.
“It could be an elaborate hoax, something set up by a couple of them to take pressure off Coates, who, if he comes back here, will be arrested. If he disappears, he doesn’t exist,” said one senior garda source.
Last night, an unconfirmed report suggested that an associate of Stephen Sugg had contacted his family to say he was safe.
“Now that the media has gone out there, whatever criminals that are there will go to ground,” the garda source said. “They won’t find anything, unless he is actually dead and his body is found.”
Gardaí are not discounting the possibility Coates may have been abducted from an apartment in Alicante and possibly murdered. Sugg is also reported to be missing.
The story originated when a person claimed to have witnessed Coates, and possibly Sugg, being bundled into a car. The caller feared for their safety. This is supposed to have happened 13 days ago.
Gardaí can confirm that Coates and Sugg were based in the Alicante area.
Separate theories have circulated of disputes between the Westies and various drug gangs; Mediterranean, Moroccan, Russian, English and Irish.
Gardaí have supplied pictures and fingerprints of Coates and Sugg to Spanish police, who told them they had nothing to fit their description. Gardaí contacted Europol to request the Spanish authorities to investigate.
On Wednesday Stephen Sugg’s father Bernard Sugg went to Blanchardstown Garda Station to express concerns over his son’s safety.
The parents of Coates, who live in Co Meath, have not contacted their local station in Kells. However, Shane’s brother Christian Coates, is reported to have travelled to Alicante.
Gardaí in Blanchardstown and at drug unit level confirm the Westies have continued to supply drugs to Blanchardstown since they fled to Spain last summer.
“The remnants of the gang are still active in Blanchardstown, dealing, robbing cars, breaking into houses. The gang structure is still in place.”
The Westies main rivals in the area are former members of the gang who have vied for dominance in the drugs trade over the last two years. The leaders of the rival gang are looking over their shoulders for the Westies, who have yet to revenge the murder of Bernard Sugg, brother of Stephen, last August.
They know the Westies believe they carried out the murder. This is another reason why gardaí suspect the disappearance could be a ploy.
“They might want their enemies to drop their guard,” said one garda.
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GARDAÍ are investigating whether the notorious Westies criminal gang was involved in an international multi-million euro illegal car export ring smashed by officers on Monday.Detectives suspect experienced thieves in the Westies - headed by two crime bosses allegedly abducted in Spain earlier this month - may have supplied the luxury vehicles to a Middle Eastern gang.
Officers estimate the international gang made between €3 million and €6 million from the trade within the last six to eight months.
Four men - three Lebanese and one Syrian - were questioned yesterday after they were arrested at a warehouse outside Kilcullen, County Kildare, on Monday.
One of them is suspected of being the ring-leader behind the operation, which mainly stripped down stolen cars into their parts for transport and sale in the Middle East.
The Criminal Assets Bureau and the Revenue Commissioners are to be called in to trace the bank accounts and assets connected to the export company set up to transport the parts. The Westies gang, based in Blanchardstown, west Dublin, has been highly involved in the theft of luxury cars. While other gangs are also involved in car thefts, gardaí suspect the Westies could be the thieves which supplied cars to the Middle Eastern gang.
“It’s too early to say for sure, but we will be investigating if there is a link,” said a garda source.
It is thought the thieves were paid between €2,000 and €10,000 for each car stolen. Around 100 high-powered vehicles have been stolen from the west Dublin area in the last eight months.
Detective Inspector Brian Sherry of Blanchardstown Station yesterday said the operation appeared to be well organised and operating for some time, at least six to eight months.
In a joint operation with the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation Stolen Car Squad, gardaí in the west Dublin division raided a warehouse just off the N9 in the Ballymount area of Kildare at around lunchtime on Monday.
Detectives arrested four men at the scene and seized a 40ft container, holding a number of cars, which had not yet been dismantled. Gardaí estimate two or three containers were shipped out each month.
Officers also seized mechanical equipment and tools used to dismantle cars, as well as documents, including shipping records.
The four men - ranging in age from 20 to 36 - were detained under the Offences Against the State Act, allowing a possible detention period of two days. Gardaí said they were searching for firearms.
Gardaí suspect the leader of the gang used a company he had previously set up for legitimate trade to ship the containers.
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REPORTS that a notorious criminal may be in hiding in North Africa were the latest in a growing number of hoax or false sightings, gardaí yesterday said.Detectives have checked out numerous “sightings” of “Westies” leader Shane Coates and his partner, Stephen Sugg, in recent weeks.
The violent pair were allegedly abducted near their apartment in the Alicante area of Spain last January.
There were claims yesterday that 31-year-old Coates may be living in Tunisia, after the girlfriends of the missing duo reportedly booked tickets to the North African country. However, senior gardaí yesterday expressed scepticism regarding the claims.
“This rumour started at the beginning of April, when one of Sugg’s sisters went off to Tunisia with a friend. People put two and two together and said they had gone there to meet him,” said one source. “They’re now saying their girlfriends have gone. He may well be there, but in reality there isn’t an ounce of fact.”
Gardaí in the Blanchardstown area of North-West Dublin have spent precious man-hours chasing what, in each case, has turned out to be false or hoax sightings.
Just this weekend, gardaí received a tip off that both Coates and Sugg were drinking in the Mill House pub in nearby Clonee village with a large group of friends. However, on checking it out, there was nothing to show they were there.
Recently, gardaí were told that the pair were drinking in Judge’s Chambers in Alicante, formerly owned by deceased Irish criminal Liam Judge. Gardaí found that while the pub had reopened, there were no confirmed sightings of the pair.
“I’ve no doubt that they are alive and well, but you won’t get proof of their sightings,” said one garda.
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Inmate treated in hospital after Limerick Prison yard stabbing
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August 24 2005, 1:50 PM
Monday, July 26, 2004
Inmate treated in hospital after Limerick Prison yard stabbing
By Paul O’Brien
AN inmate was being treated in hospital yesterday after being stabbed in Limerick Prison at the weekend.The prisoner was stabbed once in the lower back while in the prison yard around 11.15am on Saturday. He was taken by taxi to hospital for treatment, one source said, and kept in overnight.
The wounded prisoner is serving a three-year sentence and it is believed he may be linked with the west Dublin criminal gang known as “the Westies”.
An Irish Prisons Service spokesman last night confirmed the incident, saying the man had received “a puncture wound”. He said the inmate was treated by medical staff at the prison before being removed to hospital “as a precaution”.
Other prisoners were searched before being returned to their cells.
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Where these guys really abducted and murdered...its nearly 2 years since they vanished....surely they couldnt fake there own deaths for that long with the gardai knowing!!!
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This Forum is a load of rubbish. "The Westies" never existed. It was a sensational fabrication of the media in this sad little country and the idiots that read it all and believe it. Nearly every line in these posts is a lie. All you do is put the word "believed to" or "alleged" in front of it and you think you can write anything. Well here's one for ye, it is believed that the owner of this site is himself involved in illeagal activities and he is, along with his side-kick Cormack O'Keeffe, allegedly involved in an internatioinal paedophile ring. Now do I get away with saying that??!?? There have never been any drugs charges or murder charges brought against Shane Coates or Stephen Sugg. They have been slandered by every newspaper in this country. Tried and judged by the papers and the ignorant people who read them. They are now dead and burried and still the papers are making up rubbish, is there no real news in this country?? Let the past be gone and let the poor families if these two grieve in peace.
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There have never been any charges brought against Shane Coates or Stephen Sugg simply because they skipped town before this could be done. They lived by the sword and died by it too. I appreciate the heartache felt by both families, but who can forget the heartache of all the families that have buried their children because of drugs and crime in Dublin. If you think that "The Westies" is a sensational fabrication you have not lived in Dublin in recent years or you chose to keep you eyes shut.
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What is your point 'Anonymous'?? Now you clearly state that they 'lived by the sword and died by the sword' and 'they skipped town before any charges could be brought against them'. You're admitting now that they weren't the angels you made them out to be in your first post! You obviously don't get the point of this forum and want to get up on a moral high horse about 'victim's families' etc etc etc. Of course there are victims- no one is denying that here!
This forum is for like minded people who enjoy discussing the subject of how the Irish in may countries have used violence and gang activities to gain wealth and power. Like it or not it happened and is still happening today. Why dimiss this forum as 'a load of rubbish' when it is the only forum on the net that tackles this age old subject?? Have you sifted through the hundreds of threads on this site or just read one subject i.e The Dublin Westies- and decided that was enough for you to regard this whole site and subject matter as rubbish!
To be honest unless you knew these guys personally and wish to make a valid point about them then I'm not at all interested in discussing this further. I've merely posted articles from Irish newspapers. I'm well aware how newspapers can fabricate and sensationalise stories- that's just the way it is!
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Where were you when you read this, at he pub? Can you not tell that two different people have written these "Anonymous" posting. I happen to have written the second posting. I do not take a "moral high horse" of victims families. I am speaking from experience here because I have lived it. If you read the second e-mail you should have been able to tell that I totally disagreed with the remarks made by the first anoymous posting. You missed my point completly. I am sorry I confused you by using the same name as the first posting.
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re anonymous1: its strange these men you alledge to be perfectly innocent fled to spain, just as stange is these men you believe to be innocent were killed by spainish drug gangs and buried in concrete and even stranger still is the fact that afterwards normal people from their local area said they were glad to see them go and testified how these allegedly innocent men tormented their neighbourhood!
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You know it always puzzled me on how come the New York Westies seemed to rise up in status over any of the gang and I'm sure they were all equally brutal in their workings but they have risen to the top and stayed their and are still well known to this day.... kind of crazy!
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I think you have to be related to one of these guys and for that reason I can understand your emotional response.
These guys were animals, they had no compassion at all for anyone even their own families, look at the heartache they left their parents and siblings with, they had no care in the world for their feelings.
Why not go around to Corduff and Mulhuddert and ask about what these guys were like when they were alive? and see the answer you get. Go around to the drug rehab centre in those areas and speak with the junkies they terrorized and butchered. The only reason these guys never appeared on a charge sheet was because the junkies working for them were too terrified to go to the police.
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I could not agree with you more. You would have to be related to these monsters to have any sympathy for them. They terrorized the weak and were a scourge on the community.
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I have a friend who grew up in Corduff and I have been there many times
while the westies were at their height and believe me every person you
would speak to about these guys were terried of them and spoke of the
beatings, stabbings and shootings these guys handed out nearly everyday even to their own customers the addicts. They were off their heads on coke and regularly took steroids. The steroids made them aggressive and the coke paranoid and it was a lethal combination.
I used to train in a gym out that way and I used to see coates who I heard worked out everyday and let me tell you he was a big guy and certainly no match for any junkie. I'd say he was about 5'10 but very well built and not a guy you would want on your case. Thats why these guys were never charged people were terrified of them, look how they died, they walked into a meeting with the people they had ripped off a week earlier, with no protection, in an empty warehouse, in a deserted industrial estate, at night. That's how fearless and dumb these guys were, its actually whats made them so dangerous.
All that said, I do believe the emotional post made earlier was from a family member, which is understandable and I would have sympathy for them.
I heard Coates's poor family couldn't even bury him in D15, they had to bury
him in a country graveyard in Carlanstown about a 10 minute drive from Kells Co Meath for fear of violence at the buriel. That for me is the sadest thing of all.
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I could not agree with you more. You would have to be related to these monsters to have any sympathy for them. They terrorized the weak and were a scourge on the community.
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Look Guys, everyone knows who they where and the only reason they got away
with it for so long was because people were afraid of them. The only reason
the were called the "Westies" from the start was because they could not be named
for legal reasons. Do you know the photos that you see in the "Sunday world" and the
book "crimelords" and the by now infamous one with Coates putting a knife up to his
girlfriends throat, were posted in by Coates himself he actually posted that photo
and every other photo of himself and Sugg into Paul Williams. He wanted to be famous
and be classed as Ganglands number 1.
I am from Blanchardstown and the day after the murder of Pascal Boland in 1999
every dog on the street knew who pulled the trigger, its also well known the same
person had Paul Ryan murdered in Birr Co Offaly for a 30K debt. Coates was a
dangerous man who would not hesitate to kill on a whim. Look at the shoot-out
with the police in Cavan in 2003 he had no hesitation in opening fire at the police.
Thats not the sign of a normal rational person, who was tried and convicted by the media as
his brother Christian claims, what I would like to know is where were his family and suggs
family when these guys were destroying their area with violence and drugs. I read that
Coates's family believe he should have been taken into care at a young age, I say his
family should have done their fucking job like every other family who lived in Blanchardstown
and who raised their children to be decent hard working. It makes me sick when people think
of Dublin 15 and Blanchardstown they think of these scumbags and whats come after them.
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You will never under stand the mind of shane who are you what is your life wort.i new him grew up with him had fun or when mad as you would put it you tick dont talk about some one you dont no .i tell you someting what is the meaning of life do you no.i will tell u it is not a proper Q.you must say to you slef i am the meening of life you are what you do Count your slef lookey
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Coatsey was a lunatic, he was fearless, well at least when his gang were around him.
I remember him in his teens, he was always wild but I would say from listening to the
people in the neighborhood he did turn evil in the last 5/6 years of his life.
All of the papers can't have got it wrong about him. Everyone in Blanch knew about
The Sugg brothers, The Glennon brothers, O'Sullivan and Coatsey being heavily involved
in the drug trade. Anyone claiming anything else is either a family member or doesn't
know what they are talking about.
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It's amazing to me that these lads are dead 5 years this january and
people are still talking about them. What is the fascination with them?
I really am intrigued why the public are so captivated by them.
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