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04/05/2010
Travellers Hit As CAB Steps In
A crime group who are said to be part of a well-known Traveller family have been counting the cost of the work of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB).
It has seized more than €500,000 in property and cash following two separate operations targeting the Traveller criminal gang and a Chinese brothel keeper.
The High Court directed that CAB confiscate a house in Newbridge, Co Kildare, and other items from married couple Andrew and Ellen Wall known as the 'Cock Wall' gang.
The gang carried out burglaries and robberies, mainly on the homes of the elderly, all over the country.
Neither of them had a job and yet the Criminal Assets Bureau found they had more than €400,000 in cash between 2002 and 2007.
CAB searched their home at Piercetown in Newbridge and confiscated an 18-carat diamond cluster ring worth €6,100.
They also found a receipt for €8,000 for cosmetic surgery on Ellen Wall's nose and she said she spent €10,000 on a watch.
The Bureau also seized €14,000 cash (some of it sterling), a Volkswagen Passat worth €15,000 and the couple's house valued at €240,000.
(BMcC/GK)
It has seized more than €500,000 in property and cash following two separate operations targeting the Traveller criminal gang and a Chinese brothel keeper.
The High Court directed that CAB confiscate a house in Newbridge, Co Kildare, and other items from married couple Andrew and Ellen Wall known as the 'Cock Wall' gang.
The gang carried out burglaries and robberies, mainly on the homes of the elderly, all over the country.
Neither of them had a job and yet the Criminal Assets Bureau found they had more than €400,000 in cash between 2002 and 2007.
CAB searched their home at Piercetown in Newbridge and confiscated an 18-carat diamond cluster ring worth €6,100.
They also found a receipt for €8,000 for cosmetic surgery on Ellen Wall's nose and she said she spent €10,000 on a watch.
The Bureau also seized €14,000 cash (some of it sterling), a Volkswagen Passat worth €15,000 and the couple's house valued at €240,000.
(BMcC/GK)
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