Eamon Dillon

Yeah, it's one of those, I suppose it was a thread that someone pulled and it just kept getting longer and longer.

Obviously, he was known to, I suppose, certain guards in North Cork and some parts of Kerry as well.

I mean, I think he's UK born.

He married a member of the O'Brien family in...

in Killarney, some of whose members are basically professional criminals involved in home repair scams and deception, that sort of thing.

They would be connected.

Certainly, if they're not direct relatives, they're involved in the same, I suppose, criminal activity, which is knocking on people's doors, offering to do roofing and home repairs and then escalating

costs and so on but they'll also as we find out in this case they'll also kind of persuade people that they love them and get them to hand over money and they end up involved in a very cruel romance fraud which came up in this case as well So Thomas Humphreys anyway he comes to the UK and he marries into the O'Brien family and

Well, we know when he was 19, he was done for an armed robbery in, sorry, I forget the name of the actual village.

I think it was Hedford in County Kerry.

And there was another two young men that were done for that as well.

He was suspected of another one as well.

This is all in the belief evidence, again, that was given in the Criminal Assets Bureau case in December about him.

And they also said like, you know, during those years, right up until about 2019, from 2010 to 2019, he was also connected with people who were involved in the drugs business at what they described as being at a very high level.

And one of those associates that was named was Morris O'Shea Sadassar, who we have done, you know, plenty of coverage about.

This is the Irish-Mexican Sinaloa cartel figure who's considered to be a very high ranking member

Yeah.

And, you know, and it's like, if you remember that this, the stuff that came out in the Spanish press, that it was like, these guys were associates in Kerry in 2019 and in 2020.

Yeah.

Salazar was in an apartment in Barcelona and directing the activities of the gang.