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Taxi driver Raymond Shorten is to be sentenced after his conviction for rape and a**l rape of two women who he picked up while they were drunk and attacked them in his car.
The predatory behaviour of Shorten saw him trawl nightclubs looking for drunk women and even go out of his way to pull up as they stumbled along pavements trying to ring for lifts home.
Now his brave daughter Nikita has taken to social media to denounce her father’s actions and to support the women who gave evidence against him.
Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about every parents worst nightmare.

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Supergrass Raffaele Imperiale has been speaking with Dutch police in relation to his former associate El Rico and what he claims are his links to a murderous underworld feud, leaked documents show.
The Camorra Mafiosa who was arrested in Dubai and returned to Italy two years ago turned state witness as he faced a lengthy time in jail.
The one time member of the European Super Cartel has also told Dutch police that Daniel Kinahan refused to sanction a murder plot in Dubai which has been his safe haven since 2016.
Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about the sensational leaks from the confessions of the underworld informant.

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Notorious criminal Leroy Dumbrell Roche has been jailed again notching up his 82nd conviction this time for an assault.
He will rejoin his brothers Geoffrey and Warren both serving life sentences for murder as he settles down once more to a prison term.
So who is Leroy Dumbrell and why have his brothers made his one of the most notorious criminal families in the State.
Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about the life and times of the Dumbrell brothers from the notorious Mountjoy Siege to meditation session in specially designed prison gardens.

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New IRA leader Thomas Ashe Mellon found himself arrested by police over the border this week hours after he failed an explosives test when he went to visit inmates in the Republic’s high security Portlaoise Jail.
So what was Mellon doing meeting with the New IRA’s southern command with the permission of Northern Ireland’s courts and in the company of the respected Fianna Fáil TD Eamon O’Cuiv.
Nicola speaks with her colleague Allison Morris about the future of the New IRA and hopes that they may be considering a more political horizon.

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Three women who admitted helping evil Jonathan Cresswell cover up details around the death of showjumper Katie Simpson were handed down suspended prison sentences today.
Hayley Robb, Jill Robinson and Rose De Montmorency Wright each believed that Katie had taken her own life and had not been murdered when they helped Cresswell wash his clothing and hide the fact he had assaulted the 21-year-old in the hours before her death.
At Derry Magistrates Court journalist Ciaran O’Neill watched as the three women were sentenced for their roles in the secret pact around her death and as her mother’s victim impact statement revealed that Cresswell had sat at her hospital bedside as she died.
Nicola speaks to Ciaran about the sentencing, the reaction of the Simpson family and the remarks of the Judge about the controlling and predatory Cresswell.

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A Congolese asylum seeker has been deported by the Garda National Immigration Bureau days after he walked free from another jail term.
Chico Makamda was jailed in 2019 for a horrific sexual attack on a woman but had clocked up 15 other previous convictions in the 10 years he’d been in Ireland.
Although he agreed to leave the country he never did.
Nicola speaks to Eamon Dillon about the high-profile deportation from the country in recent weeks.

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