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Gangland Shootings part 4 - Read OP before posting - updated 30/12/23
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It came out in in court that Patrick Curtis was the leader of a Kinahan sub cell which was specifically set up to murder Patsy Hutch. Of the sub cell nine of them are now convicted and in prison.
Heres the 9 and their sentences-
Ciaran o'Driscoll - the lookout - 5 years
Michael Burns - supervisor and organised logistics and cars - 9 years
Stephen Curtis - bought burner phones and sims - 5 years
Patrick Curtis - sub cell supervisor - 10 years
Mark Capper -original hitman but pulled out- 7.5 years
Gary Thompson - hit team- 12.5 years
Glen Thompson - hit team- 12.5 years
Robert Browne -an Afghan war veteran part of the hit team - 11.5 years
Mohamed Smew- Was on the hit team but pulled out because he got arrested for looting a stop in Tallaght during the Big Snow of 2018, I presume this is the Lidl in Fortunestown that got ransacked with a JCB - 7.5 years
Thats some good work by the Gardai, an entire sub cell taken down with sentences totalling more than 80 years.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0831/1162323-courts-patrick-curtis-mohammed-smew/
Another nugget that came out in court was that Patrick Curtis was taking instructions from a senior member of the Kinahan cartel. They communicated by encrypted phone but Curtis couldnt remember all the instructions so he took photographs of the encrypted messages on his own phone. This turned out to be key evidence in convicting him. Also the senior cartel member was code named "Lord Nose":pac:
The best part of the case though was mitigation for Patrick Curtis. His barrister asked for a lesser sentence because Curtis claims he is claustrophobic and wouldnt be able to handle the size of a prison cell. We see some mad sh1t in mitigation but this has to take the biscuit. By the sounds of it the judge just laughed at his excuses
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/senior-kinahan-cartel-member-and-accomplice-receive-sentences-totalling-175-years-for-plan-to-kill-patsy-hutch-39491603.htmlA doctor told Patrick Curtis' sentence hearing last month that jailing the claustrophobic senior Kinahan Cartel member was like putting "a man with arachnophobia in a cell with spiders". Dr Conor McGarry, a GP attached to Portlaoise Prison, said that Patrick Curtis was diagnosed with excessive compulsive disorder and had historic issues which have impacted on his ability to cope with prison in Ireland. He said the defendant got locked in a car at the age of seven, broke his fingernails attempting to get out of the vehicle and had suffered from a fear of being alone since.
The sentence hearing was told that Patrick Curtis suffers from irrational behaviour and blesses himself around sixty times a day to compensate for negative thoughts. He shares a cell in the A block of Portlaoise Prison with his brother Stephen as his anxiety levels are so bad and it has never previously happened that two prisoners have shared the same cell, said Dr McGarry.
Mr Justice Hunt said today that Patrick Curtis' barrister Michael O'Higgins SC had submitted that the court should apply a further reduction on the basis of his client having a condition that would make the serving of a lengthy sentence significantly more difficult. "In this first instance, it is tempting to observe that not plotting to murder other people would have been the best way of avoiding this unfortunate situation," remarked the judge.
The judge said the headline sentence for Curtis was 16 years imprisonment and the weightiest mitigation factor was his guilty plea, which deserved a straight 25 per cent discount.
Mr Justice Hunt indicated that if Curtis genuinely found prison so unattractive, then he should have no difficulty keeping his side of the "social contract involved in his acceptance of a conditionally suspended portion of his sentence".
I love that by the judge, he basically said if Curtis is claustrophobic and doesnt like staying in prison cells then it might be a good idea not to be plotting a murder in the first place
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It came out in in court that Patrick Curtis was the leader of a Kinahan sub cell which was specifically set up to murder Patsy Hutch. Of the sub cell nine of them are now convicted and in prison.
Heres the 9 and their sentences-
Ciaran o'Driscoll - the lookout - 5 years
Michael Burns - supervisor and organised logistics and cars - 9 years
Stephen Curtis - bought burner phones and sims - 5 years
Patrick Curtis - sub cell supervisor - 10 years
Mark Capper -original hitman but pulled out- 7.5 years
Gary Thompson - hit team- 12.5 years
Glen Thompson - hit team- 12.5 years
Robert Browne -an Afghan war veteran part of the hit team - 11.5 years
Mohamed Smew- Was on the hit team but pulled out because he got arrested for looting a stop in Tallaght during the Big Snow of 2018, I presume this is the Lidl in Fortunestown that got ransacked with a JCB - 7.5 years
Thats some good work by the Gardai, an entire sub cell taken down with sentences totalling more than 80 years.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0831/1162323-courts-patrick-curtis-mohammed-smew/
Another nugget that came out in court was that Patrick Curtis was taking instructions from a senior member of the Kinahan cartel. They communicated by encrypted phone but Curtis couldnt remember all the instructions so he took photographs of the encrypted messages on his own phone. This turned out to be key evidence in convicting him. Also the senior cartel member was code named "Lord Nose":pac:
The best part of the case though was mitigation for Patrick Curtis. His barrister asked for a lesser sentence because Curtis claims he is claustrophobic and wouldnt be able to handle the size of a prison cell. We see some mad sh1t in mitigation but this has to take the biscuit. By the sounds of it the judge just laughed at his excuses
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/senior-kinahan-cartel-member-and-accomplice-receive-sentences-totalling-175-years-for-plan-to-kill-patsy-hutch-39491603.html
I love that by the judge, he basically said if Curtis is claustrophobic and doesnt like staying in prison cells then it might be a good idea not to be plotting a murder in the first place
He wasn’t a very good sub cell manager0 -
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