Crime World

Jonathan Gill's latest court appearance, a family divided in two by a son's brutal killing of his allegedly abusive mother, wife killer Joe O'Reilly graduates from a university course in jail, and a prison watchdog boss has custom-made pillows designed of a killer's face.
Eimear Rabbitt is joined by Neil Fetherston as we discuss the biggest stories on Crime World this week.
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Newry Crown Court has heard Jeffrey Donaldson sent a message to a minister supporting one of his alleged victims, saying he wanted to “repent before them as he had before God.”
The husband of an alleged victim in the abuse trial has broken down as he gave evidence on Thursday.
63-year-old former MP Jeffrey Donaldson has pleaded not guilty to all the 18 charges he is facing, they include rape and several counts of gross indecency and of indecent assault. His wife Eleanor Donaldson, from Dublinhill Road in Dromore, County Down denies several charges of aiding and abetting her husband’s alleged offending. She is facing a trial of the facts.
Allison Morris is covering the trial for the Belfast Telegraph.
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Siblings Bridie and Patrick Collins have spent 26 years trying to find their missing sister Sandra who vanished on a December night in 2000 from the small fishing village of Killala in County Mayo.
Over the past year, the Crime World team has been delving into the story of Sandra in the hopes of unearthing information that might lead gardai to her remains.
Nicola talks with Bridie and Patrick about Ghost: The Disappearance of Sandra Collins and their ongoing efforts to find her.
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Troubles with wedding dress shopping in an electronic tag, sports stars finding themselves on the wrong side of the law, and the week’s most bizarre story.
This is a Crime World weekly round up from crimeworld.com.
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The heartbroken family of murdered computer science student Qayyum Balogun believe he was chased down and murdered for trying to protect a girl from an assault during a music event.
The 21-year-old was stabbed to death in the early hours of Monday morning just off Grafton Street in Dublin.
Nicola talks to Eimear Rabbitt about what happened to Qayyum and who the Gardai suspect in his murder.
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