Wife killer Colin Whelan found working with vulnerable women
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Who is Colin Whelan and why is his past considered so shocking?
A notorious killer who strangled his young bride for her 500,000 euro life insurance policy has landed a job as a chef at a training center for vulnerable people. Colin Whelan gets day released from an open prison to travel to the centre where women accessing support services have not been told of his horrific past. Today I'm talking to Crimeworld's Patrick O'Connell about Whelan's brutal murder of his wife Mary Goff and coming face to face with the killer. I'm Niall Donald and this is Crimeworld, a podcast from Crimeworld.com. I suppose you came face to face with a guy that we haven't had a picture hasn't been taken of him in in twenty years. A guy called Colin Whelan, who really uh his his crime was I mean, it was genuinely one of the most shocking uh incidents of this 'cause it he really killed his wife solely for a financial motive.
Yeah, and I think also it was the calculating nature of what Colin Wheelan did. He didn't just methodically plan the murder of his wife, but after he was uh charged in connection with it, he faked his own debt to try and avoid ever facing justice. So in many ways, you know the storyline of this murder could be like something out of a a movie, uh a murder movie in the nineties, you know?
It really is, 'cause it has all those elements 'cause he he obviously up the the insurance policy just before she died and that that gave him access to money. You know, most of the the murders we cover, most of them are crimes of passion really, aren't they? People get in a fight and maybe kill somebody or, you know even even you know, amongst amongst couples there might be an affair or something like that. So it's a particularly cold blooded killing. Tell us, I suppose, what happened uh the night Mary Gough died. Well, I
I suppose I I suppose firstly the reason why we're looking back at all of this now is that um last week um we were made aware that uh Colin Wheel and um, is attending um a training facility um in South Dublin. Um that basically he's now in an open prison, um, Shelton Abbey open prison outside Arclow and Wicklow. Um, and that he's nearing the final stages of his of his sentence. Um, you know. Твоє файрс афри мердер з вайф. So basically we were made aware that he was at this facility and the person who made uh uh us aware of this Her reason was that this particular training facility, there's a lot of, I suppose what you would term vulnerable teenagers and vulnerable women also attending training courses in this facility.
And a few months back, Colin Whelan arrived up and was employed as a chef in this place. Now This woman said they weren't made aware of Colin Wheelens' identity, but I suppose over time people did become aware of it. And she had serious questions over you know, the the the wisdom of putting a person like Colin Whelan, a person who uh as we said, so with such great calculation and violence murdered his wife. in a place with vulnerable women and teenagers. Um and that's something that we did try to address with Colin Whelan. So on Wednesday of last week, we went and when Colin Whelan left the center on foot. Um I approached him and I asked him straight out, I said, Colin, do you think you're a suitable person to be working in in in in a training center of this nature?
Um, but he he completely refused to to engage with me.
So like I suppose as a life sentence prisoner he wouldn't be entitled to be doing interviews. What was his reaction though? I mean, was it I suppose it's a degree of shock, was it?
Well yeah, I d I look when I when I approached him and identified myself. Um I think there's a picture where you can see his His his his his jaw literally drops um before he composed himself and and walked away down the street as as as as fast as he could. Um, which I suppose isn't an uncommon reaction when, you know, journalists approach people of this nature. In his head, I suppose the last thing in the world he expected on Wednesday afternoon last was to be approached by a journalist and confronted about the crimes that he committed twenty five years ago.
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