Alan Wilson (Irish criminal)
Alan Wilson is an Irish criminal who is part of the Kinahan Organised Crime Group.[1]
Murder of Marioara Rostas
[edit]Marioara Rostas was an eighteen-year-old from Romania who disappeared from Dublin city centre on 6 January 2008.[2] She had been begging with one of her brothers at the junction of Pearse Street and Lombard Street.[2] Her brother saw her get into a car and when he went over to it the driver said they were going to McDonald's for food and would return later.[2] She phoned relatives in Romania before she disappeared.[2]
She was killed by four shots to her head.[2] Her body was buried in a shallow grave in the Dublin/Wicklow Mountains and was not discovered until 2012.[2][3]
Alan Wilson went on trial for her murder in 2014 and pleaded not guilty.[4] The jury found him not guilty.[4]
Meat cleaver attack
[edit]On 3 June 2009 Wilson and David Crowley broke into a house in Blanchardstown and attacked a man with a meat cleaver.[5] They were convicted in 2013 with Wilson being sentenced to seven years and Crowley to eight.[5]
In 2017 he won an appeal over the conviction on the grounds that the offence he was charged with was different from the one he was cautioned and questioned about.[6] The Supreme Court directed there could be a retrial for Wilson, but counsel for the Director of Public Prosecutions told the court there would be no retrial as Wilson had, with remission, served most of his sentence.[6]
Players Lounge shooting
[edit]In 2010 three men were shot at the Players Lounge in Fairview.[7] Two of them suffered life-altering injuries.[7] None of them were the intended target of the shooting.[7] Wilson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder persons unknown and to firearms offences.[7] He said he was approached by dissident republicans in relation to the crime and denied being in a gang.[7] A retired member of the Garda National Surveillance Unit testified that in 2017 he believed Wilson was a member of the Kinahan gang.[7] He was sentenced to ten years for conspiracy and seven and a half years for the firearms offences.[7] Charges of attempted murder of the three men were dropped after the DPP entered a nolle prosequi.[7]
Attempted murder of Gary Hanley
[edit]In 2019 he was convicted of conspiring to murder Gary Hanley in an ongoing feud.[8] He was sentenced to six years imprisonment.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ Reynolds, Paul (15 December 2021). "Kinahan gang member sentenced to 10 years for part in gun attack". RTÉ News. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f "Teenager phoned family in Romania before murder". RTÉ News. 20 June 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
- ^ "Murder accused Alan Wilson 'danced on' the body of Marioara, court told". Irish Independent. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
- ^ a b Murray, Niall (1 August 2014). "Man acquitted of Marioara murder". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
- ^ a b "Two jailed after meat cleaver attack on man in his home". RTÉ News. 12 April 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
- ^ a b O'Loughlin, Ann (13 July 2017). "Man wins appeal over burglary conviction on grounds he was charged with different offence". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Reynolds, Eoin (15 December 2021). "Criminal Alan Wilson jailed over role in plot to murder three men". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
- ^ a b O'Riordan, Alison (29 July 2019). "Gangland criminal jailed for six years for 'intricate' plan to assassinate Dublin man". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 20 December 2021.