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


Public Interest inquiry is needed into ex Garda Supt John Murphy, anyone can demand this as this criminal garda leaked information and was involved in corruption the majority of his career and it is being covered up by gardai in #NBCI, senior garda management and the justice department. 

All senior garda that knew of Murphy's criminal activity, of which there are a lot in the force and ignored it should be exposed and prosecuted. 

How many innocent people did John Spud Murphy frame and setup 

Very strange that the Garda in NBCI are only looking into Smurf now when they knew as far back as 1994 that he was in with major criminals & getting promotions. Veronica Guerin was aware of his friendship with top Gilligan gang member John Traynor who was never arrested over her murder?
Serious cover-up of Murphy by top Gardai


https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/retired-senior-garda-held-over-alleged-hutch-mob-links-after-600k-of-cannabis-found/40911067.html

"While officers expected to retrieve phones and electronic devices during the raid, they were shocked to discover €600,000 worth of cannabis and €47,000 in cash in property linked to the former senior garda John Murphy"

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’


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 So

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-gardai-caught-the-inside-man-working-for-hutch-gang-2cd2003nv


https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0um6YTTuSLSYLEJhj3rua1gvLfwHaZnmYGTJQ9FGxmfELdVKcMwF7MD4oDRxgcaBSl&id=100070583511392

https://twitter.com/Gardawhistlebl1/status/1579060148349247488

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-gardai-caught-the-inside-man-working-for-hutch-gang-2cd2003nv

 

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

People need to appeal all the conviction's John Murphy was involved in
In all fairness you would have to question and when innocent people were convicted on his word how he was allowed to retire with his full pension leaves questions to be answered
every member of the force that he was involved with must be investigated now
Murphy is getting free legal aid that should be examined extremely well before granted you will find he has money stashed off somewhere he's not that stupid he is a prime example why young children are falling into criminality
Rank-and-file would have known about his involvement he should have been sacked who covered up his portrayal of public Duty there is bigger questions to be answered

How could anyone have any trust in the Garda & come forward with information you would want to be absolutely crazy

What senior #gardai covered this up, Martin Callinan?
Supt Murphy jailed on drugs offences was still a serving officer when he was unexpectedly found socialising in a criminal’s house with cocaine on the table during a garda raid sources have said

https://www.independent.ie/news/hutch-linked-former-garda-was-found-in-criminals-home-while-still-a-serving-officer-42056914.html



Drug dealing top #Garda John Murphy sharing jail wing with senior gardai who are serious sex offenders very corrupt & violent gardai. Who were all looked after by the #Gardai in #NBCI, #DPP solicitors & #judges, all had deals done Serious #coverup

https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/drug-dealing-ex-cop-john-spud-murphy-sharing-jail-wing-with-two-other-shamed-former-gardai/1882691147.html


Chief Sir Mark Rowley says hundreds of officers should be sacked for breaking the law & committing misconduct In Ireland thousands of senior #garda officers should be sacked for breaking the law but instead they phone a friend & it gets covered up

https://news.sky.com/story/met-police-chief-sir-mark-rowley-says-hundreds-of-officers-should-be-sacked-for-misconduct-and-criminal-behaviour-12722617


#Corrupt drug dealer senior garda Murphy who is being protected by the # DPP solicitors & senior #gardai in NBCI gave top criminals references & helped them escape justice?
Is he going to be charged with perverting the course of justice?
another #coverup

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/disgraced-former-det-garda-john-spud-murphy-gave-character-reference-for-irish-criminal-in-australia-42088187.html?


Corrupt drug dealer ex-Garda superintendent John Spud Murphy is to face corruption charges for collusion with gangs Why hasn't he already been charged with this corruption, perverting the course of justice & so much more? How many people did he frame and set up?

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hutch-gang-on-the-brink-after-informer-jailed-9mvn5jfzm

Crime & Security Correspondent
Sunday October 30 2022.

Gardai believe that the Hutch crime syndicate, one of the oldest gangs in the history of the state, is imploding after the identification of a former officer whose counterintelligence activities shielded it from investigations, possibly for decades.

Gardai say they are confident of pressing charges against key figures in the crime organisation, regarded as a threat to Ireland’s national security for its influence in the world of politics, business and sport while overseeing the importation of drugs and contraband into the state.

The collapse of the gang is being attributed to the imprisonment of John Murphy, the retired garda superintendent who was jailed last month after drugs worth €260,000 were found in his home. Murphy oversaw the gang’s internal security.

Murphy, who is serving a six-and-a-half-year sentence, used a network of contacts in the force to obtain specific information about covert investigations into the gang, which enabled its members to evade arrest, identify informers and cause trials to collapse.

He is expected to be charged with corruption offences and possibly breaches of the Official Secrets Act shortly. Data extracted from smartphones show Murphy sent hundreds of texts and made dozens of calls to members of the gang. The pending charges are the culmination of a long-running investigation by the National Bureau of the Criminal Investigation and the force’s anti-corruption unit.

The retired officer is said to have divulged the names of those he colluded with and disclosed a significant volume of information about the gang’s modus operandi to gardai. His identification is described as a “pivotal moment” in the state’s efforts to dismantle the Hutch gang, which has controlled crime in Dublin’s north inner city since the 1980s, as his arrest denied the criminals of their ability to pre-empt garda operations.

Fiscal investigations into Murphy, who travelled abroad frequently, are now under way to establish if he “fronted” the purchase of foreign properties for the syndicate, which has been involved in a violent feud with the Kinahan cartel since 2016 that has claimed 18 lives.

Murphy has told friends and former colleagues he was forced to pass information to the gang after he was compromised and fell into debt but gardai believe he was actively involved in serious crime and corruption for decades.

“His story is just a means of deflecting attention away from his own criminality. He was an integral part of the Hutch gang. He betrayed the force and used his colleagues for criminal purposes and payment,” one officer said. Two gardai remain suspended on the grounds they passed information to Murphy, one unwittingly.

Murphy’s decision to collude with the Hutch organisation and other criminal gangs is considered by many in the force to be the most serious security breach in recent memory, comparable to the discovery that the Provisional IRA had penetrated the force in Limerick by recruiting garda Denis Kelly as a mole in 1992.

But Murphy’s identification and capture is also regarded as success for garda headquarters as it has demonstrated the force’s ability to pursue corruption in the ranks. Drew Harris, the garda commissioner, has previously said he is determined to send out a message to the rank and file that corruption will not be tolerated and offenders will be pursued.

Structured like a paramilitary group and known for its ability to organise internal security to thwart garda investigations and deter surveillance, the Hutch gang was once considered to be impenetrable to outsiders.

“That assessment is no longer valid. What remains of the group’s leadership are now fearful of arrest though none have fled the country fearing arrest just yet,” a security source said.

The force has now built up a detailed picture of the gang’s structure and network of criminal associates in other countries. Investigators believe the gang has generated tens of millions in illicit profits, much of it invested in property.


Corrupt Gardai , this is a daily occurence 

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/x72hp4/corrupt_ireland_cops_or_garda%C3%AD_have_spent_48/

https://exposegardacriminals.blogspot.com/2023/02/garda-supt-corrupt-drug-dealer-john.html


Garda inquiry examines alleged criminal links between Hutch and former Garda officer Murphy

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/02/06/garda-inquiry-probing-alleged-criminal-links-between-hutch-and-former-garda-officer-murphy/


A certain alcoholic crime journalist had his penalty points wiped many times by Murphy but journos will never write an article about it.
Murphy is his mate even though Spud ran with Traynor & co, the gang who murdered Guerin, whose death the journo made their name for covering

#Garda Drug Dealer John Murphy who was protected by senior #gardai & journalists for years, despite them having full knowledge of his drug dealings & it was all ignored?

" business owners quizzed about dealings with jailed garda superintendent"
#corrupt

https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/gardai-probing-ex-garda-john-spud-murphys-hutch-gang-links-quiz-dublin-business-associates/1567162079.html

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.

https://www.facebook.com/IrelandSaysNo.DSN/posts/5112189612140838


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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