Former member of notorious Westies gang jailed for 18 years for shooting at two gardai. But there's more: discover your full benefits now. 'false' : 'true'; Gardai at a burned-out car after the murder of Mark Glennon, Jay O'Connor (pictured) and David Goulding are involved in a deadly gangland feud that has already clamed the life of one victim. } The gardai were shot in their legs and one was shot in the hand. This patent covers not only the Grub's Mystery Green, but also Brads Atomic Grape and Barrys Crazy Cherry. const cookieData = updateSubscriberCookie(event.detail.object); In May, two innocent girlfriends of Westie gang members were viciously beaten by rivals in a tit-for-tat attack. subscriptionStatus: '', As the New York Post later put it, "Cahill appeared to be referencing his brother Mickey Cahill, a member of the Westies -- an Irish American crime gang that operated out of Hell's Kitchen --. Bosko Radonjich, an American-Serbian nationalist and onetime anti-communist started his Westies affiliation as a low-level associate of Jimmy Coonan in 1983. Russell gave no reason for the attack but a co-accused claimed the victim had said something to his girlfriends mother which led to the attack. A man who claimed to be a member of the notorious Westies gang told a terrified family he would get the gang to riddle their home with bullets and then petrol-bomb them. The court heard how White admitted he was planning to steal 60,000 from a home in the Phoenix Park after threatening the occupants with a gun. Joyce's body was found near Dublin Airport on January 9, 2010, two days after he had last been seen. [citation needed], He was able to add to his neighborhood prominence by marrying Maureen McManus, a daughter of the prestigious McManus family which had run the Midtown Democratic Club since 1905. const subscriberCookieName = 'subscriber'; if (flipPayJsUrl) { While building up a reputation as the best car thieves in Dublin, O'Connor and Goulding grew close to another major player on the crime scene, Baldoyle-based drugs trafficker David 'Babyface' Lindsay. Goulding and his brother David were former members of the Westies crime gang along with OConnor but fell out years ago. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, subscriptionFinishDate: '0000-00-00T00:00:00Z', If he is not the scumbag that the papers make out. Russell hit the headlines again in 2008 after he sliced a mans hand off with a samurai sword in a shocking attack in a north Dublin pub. Loansharking led to assault, and Spillane had burglary arrests as well. const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'corporate_account'); He had no shown no signs of depressive behaviour and was generally well behaved while serving his sentence and would have been out before the end of the summer, said a source. They were very intimidating. Garda have identified Stephen Sugg as a member of the notorious Westies gang, which is based in the Corduff and Mulhuddart areas of west Dublin. They are known for their casual brutality. Drug addict Christopher McDonald shouted Jay OConnor before opening fire on Mr Walker at Blanchardstown Pigeon Racing Club car park on Shelerin Road, Clonsilla on 12 June 2015. Coonan is being held on unrelated murder charges. Gmail. "I'll tell you a story, there's going to be a f***ing war in Blanchardstown - they are f***ing dead, stone f***ing dead," he said. That way, there's no chance of trouble. I think you have to be related to one of these guys and for that reason I can understand your emotional response. }; window.GTMLoaded = false; 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. userID: purchase.granted_by_purchase.user_id, Cruz Captain lucky/v, This website uses cookies for functionality, analytics and advertising purposes as described in our. To commemorate this special occasion, KarenO, a registered nurse with 35 years of experience, has started The Nightingale Project. Gintaras Zelvys was shot twice in the body with a handgun as he arrived with his wife to open up his 'cash for clothes' business in the Greenogue industrial estate, Rathcoole, west Dublin. ", But for one 16-year-old, Sugg was a "sound bloke". subscriptionStartDate: '1111-11-11T11:11:11Z', Sugg's murder isn't the first act of violence directed against the gang. Coates, 31, and Sugg, 26, were members of infamous criminal drug gang known as 'The Westies'. It appears that this patent is exclusive to the Russian Federation, with exporting to Belarus and K-stan and importing from Germany being allowed. if (subscriberCookieStatus === "undefined") { They reached breaking-point when Sugg, who also worked as a doorman in the Brookwood Inn, refused entry to rival gang members twice last week. The union of political power with criminal activity enhanced the gang's ability to control union jobs and labor racketeering, moving away from the declining waterfront and more strongly into construction jobs and service work at the New York Coliseum, Madison Square Garden, and later the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. This page was last edited on 16 April 2022, at 08:36. Revenge is said to be imminent. He is not hopeful the murder investigation will lead to convictions. } })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-KJF4'); According to the indictment, she visited Coonan in prison and passed along his orders that Leone be killed. Garda sources also say they're "not the smartest on the block". NEW YORK (AP) _ A former member of the Westies gang says he helped rob and murder a loan shark in a bar in Hells Kitchen but balked when the gangs leader began butchering the corpse with a knife. There have never been any drugs charges or murder charges brought against Shane Coates or Stephen Sugg. Although Coonan wounded no one, Spillane understood that the younger hoodlum was not to be taken lightly. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. The body of Herman \u0026#039;The Vermin\u0026amp;rsquo; White (36), who was a member of the notorious west Dublin crime gang \u2013 the Westies, was found in the segregation area of the jail at 8.30am yesterday.White who had only a few months left of his sentence had not been considered a suicide risk by jail authorities.He was the only occupant of his cell.\u0026amp;ldquo;He had no shown no signs of depressive behaviour and was generally well behaved while serving his sentence and would have been out before the end of the summer,\u0026amp;rdquo; said a source.In July, 2010, White \u2013 who had spent most of his adult life in jail \u2013 got an eight-year sentence after pleading guilty to possession of a handgun, car theft and three counts of burglary.The court heard how White admitted he was planning to steal \u20ac60,000 from a home in the Phoenix Park after threatening the occupants with a gun.After he was intercepted by gardai, White tried to flee the scene in a stolen Mercedes and was involved in a high-speed chase on the M1 motorway.White, from Corduff Park, Blanchardstown, pleadedguilty to possession of a handgun, car theft, dangerous driving and three counts of burglary in the Malahide area on May 25, 2005.The court heard that White told gardai he owed \u20ac20,000 to a group for drugs after he was arrested. Jason O'Connor sided with the Glennons while David Goulding took Babyface's side and the dispute became increasingly nasty. }; return; Also indicted, on a charge of conspiracy to murder, was Julia Coonan, 44, of Hazelet, N.J., wife of alleged Westies leader James Coonan. It was felt that Spillane still had to die. const isGrantedBy = function (grant) { The Goulding brothers were on one side of the feud while OConnor and brothers Andrew and Mark Glennon were on the other. Tensions were high between Sugg and a north Dublin gang which is involved in a turf war with the Westies. }); 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); When the citys new Convention Center opened, leaders of the Westies and the Mafia met to negotiate control, the commission reported. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. T he body of Herman 'The Vermin' White (36), who was a member of the notorious west Dublin crime gang - the Westies, was found in the segregation area of the jail at 8.30am yesterday. return 'home-delivery'; Tried and judged by the papers and the ignorant people who read them. The gang - which dates back to Owney Killer Madden, owner of the Cotton Club - is a remnant of the huge Irish presence in organized crime in American cities at the turn of the century. Photo Credit - Danny Trio / This Thing of Ours Social Club. const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'purchase'); They are involved in supplying heroin and other drugs in west and north Dublin. I will blow your head off, fire an RPG [ rocket propelled grenade] into your house and cut up your son.". meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, They are now dead and burried and still the papers are making up rubbish, is there no real news in this country?? Malcom Flannagan is the last remaining member of the original Westies crew, who survived boss Jimmy Coonan and the indictments and moved out of Hell's Kitchen to Whitestone, Queens. Jail buddies Kevin Kelly (Westies) and Anthony Senter V Vincent Arpa The Westies Owney Madden bootlegger and owner of the Cotton Club: rumored to be Mae West's lover and chief financial backer for her show "Sex" Hells Kitchen Mobster Gangsters Thug Meatballs Hell's Kitchen Irish Mob The Westies 1/2 America's Most Wanted Julie Christie "It's going to be like world war three around here," says an excited teenager. 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Sugg was shot in the stomach last year. After one body floated to the surface of the river, we heard one of them say, We should have cut the lungs open, said a prosecutor who requested anonymity. bodyAvailable) { The community didn't turn out for Sugg's funeral.". The gang, who were also involved in armed robberies and extortion, imploded after the murders of all of its leaders.[1][2][3]. Are any of them still in Hell's Kitchen? Ms Duffy agreed that when garda raided her home and discovered the 16,000, the money had been in her handbag but she claimed she didn't know it was there. Although dismemberment is used for effect, it also facilitates the disposal of bodies. This man, who was extremely close to Sugg, returned home for his funeral. The "Westies", an Irish-American criminal organization that was based predominately in Western Manhattan disintegrated as a functioning unit in the late 1980s and early 1990s. return 'premium-plus'; They were childhood pals who grew up together and joined Dublin's most notorious crime gang. A 16-year-old tells of lorry-loads of cigarettes and designer goods hijacked by the Westies at gunpoint. Kelly is a fugitive, while the other two were arrested, police said. Turf: All over Dublin. } Who We Are. 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Spanish police suspect they were killed after crossing another group of Irish gangsters based in Spain. Despite a sharp decline in the recruiting pool of poorly educated, inner- city Irish-Americans, the Presidents Commission noted that Irish groups also have survived in Boston and Philadelphia through accommodation with the dominant (Mafia) interests., Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. Mr Bowman also requested that a governor's report be prepared from Cloverhill Prison. observer.disconnect(); O'Connor was later taken under the wing of a veteran southside gang boss. Dunn Loring, VA 22027. At that point the information provided by the Featherstones resulted in the arrest of Coonan and several other Westies on state charges of murder and other crimes. The feud quietened down after OConnor was sentenced to three years in prison in 2019 in relation to a stab attack on a man in a west Dublin pub and threatening to kill two gardai. In 1966, Coonan fired a machine gun at Spillane and his associates from atop a Hell's Kitchen tenement building. Aside from their own feud, both O'Connor and Goulding have been involved in other underworld spats. He was all right. vars.user.userID = subscriberCookie.userID || ''; In July, 2010, White who had spent most of his adult life in jail got an eight-year sentence after pleading guilty to possession of a handgun, car theft and three counts of burglary. const subscriberCookieStatus = getCookie(subscriberCookieName) || '{}'; Despite his injuries, O'Connor refused to identify his attackers but gardai quickly established that Alan Ryan's mob were responsible. His barrister Michael Bowman said a psychiatric report on his client had only been received by the defence on Friday. However, his release from prison last year is believed to have put Goulding in a paranoid state of mind. vars.article.wallVisible = ! A man in a wheelchair who owed money was beaten up. During the late 1970s, Coonan tightened the alliance between the Westies and the Gambinos, then run by Paul Castellano. Tom Wagner's varieties of tomatoes have been a hit among gardeners for years. const selectedRegional = localStorage.getItem('selectedRegionals'); The growing use of cocaine by Ireland's increasingly affluent middle class meant that the gangs were making tens of thousands of euro each week. Gardai recovered a machine pistol and a handgun in the house in Whitechapel Grove after the siege ended and also recovered a second machine pistol in the back garden of the house during follow up searches. if (parts.shift() === key) { The group wa. 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The Westies are about 15 men - almost all in jail or in hiding - who have as many as 100 criminal associates. const getCookie = key => { Jackie Coonan was the younger brother of Jimmy Coonan and one of the early members of the Westies of Hell's Kitchen, along with Eddie Sullivan and Bobby Huggard, around the time when the Coonan / Spillane War was starting to get going. [citation needed] Coonan was sentenced to sixty years in prison on assorted charges. return 'premium'; One man required 80 stitches to his face. Their dispute has its roots in the disintegration of the gang. Sugg (23) and other members of the Westies gang always sat in the same spot - just to the left, inside the door. Now Jason 'Jay' O'Connor (37) and David 'Gully' Goulding (38) hate each other's guts. The standards setting and IP regimes in Russia are open to some manipulation, as evidenced by last y, Growing Tom Wagner's Varieties of Tomatoes: A Gardener's Guide With Tips & Advice, Tom Wagner is a renowned horticulturist who has created several varieties of tomatoes, including the popular "Fort Vancouver Yellow Pear", "Pennsylvania Catchfly", "Santa Anna" and "Sunspot". Goulding meanwhile is living in Co Meath. Leone, also described by law enforcers as a loanshark, was shot to death on Feb. 11, 1984, in Guttenberg, N.J., allegedly because he failed to share proceee James McElroy, 36, of New York City; William Bokun, 29, of North Bergen, N.J.; and Kevin Kelly, 31, of New York City. The Westies was the name given by the Irish media to a criminal gang based in Blanchardstown, west Dublin, Ireland. They sprang up in west Dublin about five years ago. }; Other gang members live in more comfortable, but generally not luxurious, surroundings. const observer = new MutationObserver(onMutation); return key.split('granted_by_')[1]; OConnor, who vowed revenge for the attack, lunged at McDonald and threatened him during the trial. window.loadGTM = function () { const cookies = document.cookie.split('; '); if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('print_monthly') > -1) { DeMeo initially came into contact with Coonan after the latter had murdered and dismembered loan shark Ruby Stein.[6]. return 'epaper-access'; It's not just prison the Westies have to contend with. } On the New York Commission, Spillane was still viewed as the Irish Mob boss on the Westside, putting the Javits Convention Center construction site under his control. They're all in. vars.article.userWall = 'none'; Almost every trend of the post-World War II era, from containerization of shipping to the movement of many Irish-Americans to the suburbs, worked against the Westies, and the gang soon was surpassed in power and influence by the citys Mafia families. const listenForFlipPayEvents = function () { userID: purchase.granted_by_corporate_account.user_id, She claimed they were estranged but he was still registered as living at her home," the detective explained. It was a sensational fabrication of the media in this sad little country and the idiots that read it all and believe it. Spillane was out of the picture, and Coonan was the undisputed boss of Hell's Kitchen. return { const element = mutation.target; A Garda source says the Westies have about two dozen "hardcore" members. !gigyaID ? Please check your inbox to verify your details, Now download the free app for all the latest Sunday World News, Crime, Irish Showbiz and Sport. !subscriberCookie.subscriptionStatus ? Meanwhile, the feud between former Westies members continued on over the years and David Goulding was injured after being shot in a car in Hartstown, north Dublin in 2012 in another attacked linked to the bitter dispute. } Beattie said the killers split about $1,000 Stein was carrying, then put Steins body on plastic sheets and dragged it to the rear of the bar, where it was cut up with a serrated kitchen knife. return key.indexOf('granted_by_') > -1; Garda sources say he is intent on retaliation. "[9], For nearly two decades following the end of the "Yugo Era", there was little mention of the activities or even continued existence of The Westies. Beattie, who said he joined the gang in 1972, testified that the main defendant, reputed Westies boss James Jimmy Coonan, once said he killed to enhance his reputation because the more bodies you had, the more monstrous you looked.. Real IRA criminal Ryan was shot dead four months later, but O'Connor is not a suspect in that high-profile case. The Westies stole a substantial cache of weapons from a registered firearms dealer in Balbriggan, Co Dublin in May, while they held him and his family hostage. Goulding was then remanded in custody and eventually handed a three-and-a-half year sentence for two burglaries in the Portmarnock area dating back to March 2005. His brother Mark (32) was shot dead outside his home in Blanchardstown by a lone gunman five months later. They're all in their 20s and early 30s. He claimed they had given him the gun and told him to call to a house in the park. With this change came a decrease in street crime and a change in leadership. subscriptionFinishDate: '1111-11-11T11:11:11Z', "They won't see the end of the week.". 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Russell was seriously injured when he was mown down by a car as he was walking on the pavement in 2016 after his release from prison in another incident believed to be linked to the feud. He died in hospital an hour later. The Westies and the Gambino family have been working together for eight to 10 years, according to police intelligence reports. bundle: bundleValue, Goulding's name meanwhile, has come up in court proceedings. A FORMER gangster who killed himself in Mountjoy Prison left a suicide note for his loved ones, jail insiders have revealed. He was found in a Co Offaly field shot in the head, his hands tied behind his back. He was sipping soda water when two gunmen, dressed in black with balaclavas, burst into the Brookwood Inn in west Dublin. vars.user.gigyaID = gigyaID || ''; let bodyAvailable = false; Bernard Sugg (23), Stephen's younger brother, was gunned down in 2003. But there's more: discover your full benefits now. }; McDonald, who is from the East Wall area of Dublin, was sentenced to life after being found guilty of the murder. Revenge is in the air after the murder of a west Dublin gang member in a crowded pub, reports Suzanne Breen. window.showSubscriberElements = true; } With Spillane gone, his control of the rackets in Hell's Kitchen began to deteriorate; Coonan became the neighborhood's boss, although some still viewed Spillane as boss. return { In June 2015, the feud claimed the life of an innocent man, Keith Walker, when a gunman shot him mistaking him for OConnor. , it also facilitates the disposal of bodies experience, has come up court... Change came a decrease in street crime and a north Dublin gang member in a paranoid state of.. Field shot in the disintegration of the media in this sad little country and the became! Cloverhill prison out of the picture, and Coonan was the name given by the papers make out 's. 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