Garda Superintendent John Spud Murphy , Drug dealer, criminal etc. How many innocent people did he frame and setup ?
Drug Dealer criminal Garda Supt John Murphy then and now
Who was close to harden criminals when he was a serving Garda and it was ignored by top gardai, Martin Callinan etc.? #cover up
Murphy has a share in Gibneys pub Malahide he was in it seven nights a week and in it with Martin Callinan also
Murphy had dealings around Cavan too he made quite a few friends with locals while he was in Cavan. He was Superintendent in Cavan Town around 2004/06
Yet when it went to court the amount of drugs stated seized by #NBCI was halved and no cash mentioned ?
John Murphy built a 600k extension on one of his properties just before his arrest, knowing he would be able to make it back in drug deals
This is what his debt was
Murphy has a number of houses
Murphy owns shares in pubs , garages, taxi cabs and a drug dealing business
This has all been covered up as usual by the justice department
Why was John Murphys house in Bantry not searched ? #coverup
How many people did Murphy Frame?
How many people did murphy leak information on?
Serious cover up going on here?
There were several issues of concern about him while he was in the force.
Sources say one of the incidents related to officers unexpectedly coming across Murphy when they carried out a raid targeting a criminal figure.
“They went in and Spud was sitting at a table drinking with the target and a few women and there were lines of coke on the table.”
Murphy’s links to the Hutch gang are believed to stretch back to when he was still a serving officer.
He rose through the ranks to the position of superintendent before he unexpectedly retired early at the age of 50 in 2010.
Sources say he was encouraged to go early by senior officers who were worried by his behaviour.
https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/hutch-linked-former-cop-was-found-in-criminals-home-while-still-a-serving-officer/1859250293.html
https://twitter.com/DeportDaniel/status/1577059969140109312
John Murphy ex Supt was running with the Gilligan gang since as far back as 1994 , yet he was promoted over and over again by the justice department ?
How gardai caught the inside man ‘working for Hutch gang’
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-gardai-caught-the-inside-man-working-for-hutch-gang-2cd2003nv
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John
Murphy high ranking Garda drug dealer and criminal
How gardai caught the inside man ‘working for Hutch gang’Former detective
superintendent John Murphy, who was convicted last week on drugs charges, is
suspected of tipping off the crime boss before he fled to the Costa del Sol
John Murphy cut a contrite figure in Dublin circuit criminal court last Tuesday
as his barrister argued for the imposition of a lenient sentence after drugs
worth almost €260,000 were found in his home.
The 62-year-old retired detective superintendent had debts of €855,000 due to
the poor business decisions he made after retiring from the force in 2010, his
senior counsel Michael O’Higgins told the court, describing Murphy as a
functioning alcoholic. “His drinking clouded his judgment and brought him to
this sorry pass,” the barrister said.
Judge Martin Nolan was unconvinced. Murphy, he said, was not an “innocent
abroad” when he got involved in drug dealing, though he accepted prison life
for a former detective would be difficult.
“He was a man of some substance and some character and should have been able to
withstand the temptation of easy money but he didn’t,” said Nolan before he
imposed a sentence of six and a half years.
It has been more than a decade since Murphy announced his retirement from the
force on the pretext of wishing to pursue new business ventures. In fact he was
the focus of a collusion inquiry into his association with criminals. A man
caught with a consignment of drugs claimed he was working for the
superintendent when he was arrested, which triggered the internal inquiry.
Phone data showed the two had communicated regularly.
Murphy, who at the time was stationed at Bridewell, claimed the suspect was a
rogue informant he was running “off the books” in breach of regulations, but
few believed his story. He had a history of insubordination, bullying
colleagues, quashing penalty points and interfering in prosecutions. While he
featured in the society pages of the press and mixed with celebrities, many of
his colleagues suspected he was corrupt.
More than a decade later, this was confirmed when the security services
established Murphy had become heavily involved in organised crime and was
passing information to the Hutch gang. Murphy spied for them and used his
influence to compromise garda investigations in return for cash. He provided
information about informers, surveillance tradecraft and evidential weaknesses
in trials, which brought about their collapse.
A married father of five who once served in the Defence Forces, Murphy was
finally identified as a spy in about April 2021 as part of the wider
investigation into the armed attack on the Regency hotel in 2016, which had
ignited the Hutch-Kinahan feud. The initial intelligence indicated he was
responsible for alerting Gerard Hutch, known as “the Monk”, to the existence of
a European arrest warrant seeking his arrest in connection with the shooting of
David Byrne, a 34-year-old drug dealer, at the Regency.
Hutch left Ireland after the attack and had been living openly in Lanzarote. To
the alarm of the Irish and Spanish security services, he vanished days before
details of the warrant were circulated on the garda’s IT system.
Further investigations connected Murphy to Thomas Savage, a violent criminal
from Swords in north Dublin who had multiple convictions for drug trafficking,
armed robbery and paramilitarism. The two were partners in a drugs wholesaling
venture that supplied gangs, including some from eastern Europe.
Surveillance on Murphy established he was providing confidential information to
Savage, who would then pass it on to the Hutches, though Murphy eventually gained
their trust and began communicating directly with the gang.
The discovery was a disaster for Garda Headquarters as the full extent of the
penetration emerged. The commissioner and the Department of Justice were
briefed as Murphy was not just providing information but also organising the
gang’s counter-intelligence.
He would ask former garda colleagues to run checks on people, cars and
addresses linked to the Hutch organisation to establish if they were under
surveillance. One of the gardai he used for this purpose had access to
sensitive information at Security and Intelligence, the force’s spying
division. It was a unique but effective form of counter-surveillance.
Murphy also recruited gardai willing to collude with the gang. One such officer
based in Dublin is suspected of informing Murphy about the existence of the
European arrest warrant for Hutch.
Once the scale of the infiltration became apparent, senior gardai began to
restrict access to all classified information about those involved in the
Hutch- Kinahan feud but also to monitor who was accessing it and for what
purpose. Disinformation was also circulated with the purpose of finding other
moles.
Murphy’s undoing came about as a result of separate but connected events in
August 2021. Savage died of a heart attack within hours of being informed that
Gerard Hutch had been arrested by the Guardia Civil while having dinner at a
café in Fuengirola. The arrest stunned the gang who had assumed Murphy would be
alerted by one of his moles if Garda Headquarters had established Hutch’s
whereabouts.
Savage’s death also forced Murphy to become more “hands on” in distributing
drugs. This, coupled with the seizure of mobile phone handsets in Spain, which
Hutch’s associates had used to communicate with him, also led to his downfall.
When the security services disabled the phones’ encryption, they found hundreds
of texts and calls between Murphy and the gang.
The National Bureau of Criminal Investigation was the garda unit tasked with
co-ordinating Murphy’s arrest. The unit moved against him in September 2021
when detectives obtained a warrant to search his home. The aim was not to
recover drugs but rather the burner phones Murphy had been using.
On the day of the raid, however, Murphy had just collected a shipment of drugs
from a warehouse in Co Meath for onward distribution. Gardai found eight bags
of cannabis herb in the walk-in wardrobe of an upstairs bedroom. Another seven vacuum-packed
bags of cannabis were found hidden in a coal bunker at the back of the house
and another five bags in Murphy’s car, suggesting he was about to make
deliveries. The total weight of the drugs was just under 13kg, and the street
value was estimated to be €259,120.
In custody, Murphy confessed to his crimes, named his co-conspirators, and
attempted to cut a deal before he was charged. His offer was rejected but it
was the catalyst for operations against the serving gardai who had provided him
with information.
Two officers were immediately suspended following searches of their homes. One
has since made a voluntary statement admitting he provided classified
intelligence to Murphy but had no idea it was being passed to criminals. The
second officer remains suspended after a weapon was found in his work locker.
How deep does the rot go? Few with knowledge of the affair believe all of the
gardai involved in the conspiracy have been identified, but the scale of the
penetration has led investigators to conclude they compromised investigations
and court trials and possibly helped criminals identify informants in their
ranks who were then killed.
Eddie Hutch Sr was murdered by four masked men who entered his home on Poplar
Row in the north inner city shortly after the Regency attack. Hutch Sr had
secretly met a garda hours before his death, though he was not a registered
informer, or covert human intelligence source.
Garda Headquarters may have unmasked the Hutch organisation’s network of moles
in the ranks, but it may not be the only gang to cultivate corruption in the
force or to bribe officers. The Kinahans are suspected of engaging in similar
plots both here and abroad.
Murphy is likely to face additional charges in the coming months, but it is
unclear whether the state will use him to testify against those with whom he
conspired. The authorities are more interested in making an example of him,
said one source familiar with the case.
“Corrupt cops don’t make good witnesses,” the source added. “If he were to turn
state’s evidence, it would involve washing a lot of dirty laundry in public.”
John Murphy was seen drinking with Martin Callinan many times in Gibneys pub Malahide where Spud Murphy worked and had a share in it too
Garda inquiry examines alleged criminal links between Hutch and former Garda officer Murphy
Business owners quizzed about dealings with jailed ex garda superintendent
John ‘Spud’ Murphy is being investigated for his links to Gerry Hutch
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/crime/hutch-probe-business-owners-quizzed-about-dealings-with-jailed-ex-garda-superintendent-42338374.html
Suspended detective in corruption probe allegedly received thousands of euro to help with eviction
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/suspended-detective-in-corruption-probe-allegedly-received-thousands-of-euro-to-help-with-eviction-42425022.html
A corrupt guard gets caught with a lot of drugs but he is treated differently to how everyone else would be.
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Money and menaces: the jailed former garda, the property investor, and the €5k fixer’s fee
Gardaí investigate violent campaign of intimidation against witness in corruption probe
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/crime/money-and-menaces-the-jailed-former-garda-the-property-investor-and-the-5k-fixers-fee/a1151283353.html
Gardaí have launched a high-level investigation into a series of attacks on a key witness in what is one of the biggest garda corruption probes in decades.
The witness has provided detailed statements about the activities of jailed former superintendent John ‘Spud’ Murphy, and a serving member.
The witness — a businessman involved in commercial development in Dublin, — has told gardaí he was referred to Murphy for advice on resolving a costly property dispute.
Murphy allegedly demanded a fee of tens of thousands for resolving the business dispute, according to informed sources.
The serving garda who referred the businessman to Murphy allegedly demanded a €5,000 fee for making the introduction.
Murphy is already serving a six-year jail sentence after cannabis worth €260,000 was discovered in his north Dublin home.
The former superintendent remains under investigation, on suspicion of using serving members of the force to access confidential information for the Hutch organised crime gang.
Murphy had also operated as a security fixer in Dublin business circles, which is how the businessman came to be referred to him.
The businessman has recently been targeted in a campaign of violence and intimidation, with four separate attacks on his home since December.
Garda sources say the attacks are not related to the evidence the businessman has given to the corruption investigation, but stem instead from the property dispute that brought him in contact with Murphy in the first place.
Although unrelated, there is growing concern that the attacks could spook the businessman into withdrawing his crucial witness statement to the corruption investigation. Detectives with the specialist team investigating Murphy last week flagged the attacks on their key witness with his local gardai.
The threats began on December 3, when a man called to the businessman’s home — in a peaceful, middle-class Dublin suburb, during a children’s party — and threatened his life.
Two days later, two men in balaclavas attacked a family car parked in the front driveway of the house in broad daylight, smashing the windows and setting it on fire.
On New Year’s Day, a man, also with his face covered, pulled up outside the house, and vandalised a second family car, puncturing the tyres and smashing the windows.
On January 10 the windows in the front room of the house were smashed in, showering glass over the children who were inside the house.
The masked culprits were captured on CCTV smashing the windows with a hammer — footage which is now being examined by gardaí.
The terrifying attacks are understood to have had a harrowing impact on the family, disrupting the children’s home life as well as their parents’ work life.
A garda spokesperson declined to comment on “ongoing criminal investigations” this weekend.
However, a source said the threats against the businessman are being taken “very seriously” and a major investigation is underway to identify those behind the attacks.
He added that while the threats are not linked to the victim’s role as a witness giving evidence in the anti-corruption investigation, there is a concern that the “referred pressure” could impact on his evidence to the probe.
“There are two distinct and separate investigations involving the injured party, and they are not connected,” the source said.
“But it is a concern if someone is being intimidated. And it is a logical conclusion to ask if that person would then put their head above the parapet [for a separate investigation]?”
The witness is one of several business people to have provided statements, one of the most senior former gardaí to be convicted of a criminal offence.
According to informed sources, the businessman was introduced to Murphy six years ago, at a time when the former superintendent traded on his garda reputation, offering his services as a trouble-shooter and fixer in Dublin property and business circles.
At the time, the businessman was having difficulties with a tenant in a commercial premises recently purchased by his company. Costs had racked up and he was advised by a third party to contact a serving garda, who he was told could help.
The serving garda allegedly offered to introduce the businessman to a “very senior” former garda, and allegedly demanded a cash fee of €5,000 to make it happen.
The businessman met Murphy in a popular pub and restaurant in the north city, the informed source said.
Detectives were told Murphy subsequently demanded a “substantial five-figure sum” as a fee for his services.
The businessman refused to pay.
As a result, his company’s property dispute was never resolved. Legal fees and security costs racked up, and the company was eventually liquidated with dwindling chance of a return on the investment.
However, Murphy stayed in contact with the businessman over the following months, possibly in an attempt to “groom” him, sources said.
Murphy is known to have offered his services to a number of developers. He has offered to ‘resolve disputes’, over issues such as planning objections, tenancies and rights of access.
Detectives have been told that Murphy put himself forward as a broker who attempted to link up his business contacts with overseas “investors” who had cash to invest in property businesses in Ireland.
Businesspeople have described to detectives how Murphy gave the impression to potential clients that he had a wide network of contacts and access to sensitive information.
Murphy, from Clontarf in north Dublin, is from a famous garda family and is the son of a chief superintendent. He rose to the rank of superintendent but retired months later in 2010. Several well-known faces and celebrities joined gardaí at a retirement do held at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.
The Sunday Independent revealed last year that Murphy’s departure coincided with a reference he gave to a Clontarf man who had fled to Australia while under investigation in connection with a €50,000 drugs seizure.
The man, Robert Burke, was eventually apprehended in Australia was held in custody, pending the Irish garda authorities’ application for his extradition. During a bail application, Burke produced a document from Murphy, then a senior serving garda, attesting to his good character and enumerating the threats he would face on returning home.
Murphy’s intervention was reported to garda headquarters in 2010. He subsequently retired from the force.
Murphy came on the garda radar a decade later. Gardaí suspected Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch had been tipped off about their plans to extradite him from Spain to face a murder charge in Ireland, of which he was later acquitted.
The GNBCI launched an investigation and followed the trail to Murphy.
Gardaí raided his home in September 2021, intending to seize his phones and laptops. Instead they found cannabis worth €260,000 stashed in his home and car.
A trawl of Murphy’s phones uncovered a web of contacts ranging from gardaí, to clients and suspected criminals.
Murphy pleaded guilty to the drugs charge and was convicted in 2022.
At his sentencing hearing, his defence counsel claimed he was a functioning alcoholic with clouded judgment who racked up debts of €855,000 in his 10 years of retirement. His investments “went down the drain”, he had “whatever the opposite of the Midas touch is”.
Sentencing him to six years in jail, Judge Martin Nolan said it was hard to know what position Murphy held in the criminal enterprise — but it seemed he was holding drugs for someone else for financial reward.
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