Thread: Kirsty Jones's killer got away with it!

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George Bernard Murray Hoolahan
Hoolahan, 58, failed to appear at North Tyneside Magistrates' Court on July 13, 1999.

Police have a possible sighting of him in Nottingham.

ChronicleLive - News - Chronicle News - On the run

Fugitive Scot wanted over horrific sex attacks is tracked down in Bangkok
Andrew Drummond
Aug 22 2010

A SCOTS fugitive accused of horror sex attacks has been tracked down by the Sunday Mail in Bangkok's red-light district.

George Hoolahan, 60, has been on the run for more than 10 years after being accused of raping two 18-year-old girls.

Hoolahan is wanted by police in Scotland and England and has regularly featured on most-wanted lists since failing to turn up for trial in 1999.

But he was left reeling after we tracked him down to his Thai bolthole, where he hangs out in a sleazy sex-for-sale bar.

Stunned Hoolahan said last night: "I've been found by the Sunday Mail. I think that I'll be coming back now. "If the cops said I was to jump on a plane, I would say aye. I don't think

I'll sleep well tonight." In addition to being wanted for the alleged double rape in England, Glaswegian Hoolahan is the subject of an arrest warrant for an alleged £100,000 financial scam in Scotland.

Last week, we tracked him down to a bar near Soi Cowboy - a street notorious for go-go bars, prostitutes and "lady boy" transvestites. The fugitive's full name is George Bernard Murray Hoolahan but in Thailand, he calls himself George Murray or George Bernard.

We trapped Hoolahan - who now works as a property developer - by posing as potential clients. After arranging to meet us at the Victoria Bar off Sukhumvit Road, Hoolahan arrived wearing white trousers and a pink polo shirt bearing a machine gun logo. When we asked him if he was wanted by police over the double rape allegations, he lied: "Aye. But that's all cleared up now.

"It was only a date rape kind of thing."

We told him the deal was off after revealing we knew about the decade-long manhunt for him. Earlier, we had told the police where to find him.

The alleged rapes took place in the seaside resort of Whitley Bay but Hoolahan failed to turn up when his case was called at a magistrates' court in North Tyneside.

For more than 10 years, he has been on Northumbria Police's most-wanted list and several publicity drives aimed at finding him have been fruitless. In the same year as the alleged rapes, Hoolahan was also being hunted by police in Glasgow over an alleged swindle.

He is accused of vanishing with around £100,000 from the coffers of his Glasgow firm Fuel Negotiators.

Scottish Crime Squad detectives hunted him over the withdrawal of cash from the company account.

The controversial company were slammed by trading standards officers and politicians for cashing in on gas privatisation by charging customers £25 to negotiate low prices with energy suppliers.

A report into their nancial a airs was sent to the scal and an arrest warrant was issued for Hoolahan.

Last night, Hoolahan said he would willingly return to Scotland. But he then launched a vile attack on his alleged victims in a self-pitying whine. He said: "These girls were a couple of junkies. I was out with friends drinking and these two girls picked me up.

"They weer on drugs and we went back to my room. There were people in the next room and there was no shouting or bawling.

"It was a bit of a party. They went away the next day and they were staying in a homeless unit and my understanding is that if they were on drugs they would have been thrown out. So they blamed me.

"When made contact, I knew right away it was suspicious but I thought it was a cop. I've lost my whole life because of this.

"I miss Scotland. I miss my family. I don't know if my sisters or brothers are even alive.

"You can find anyone in the world If you hadn't found me, the police probably wouldn't have bothered their a**e."

Four years ago, police failed to catch Hoolahan in Operation Turn-Up, which led to the arrest of hundreds of wanted men. Two years later, he topped Northumbria Police's list of 833 bail-jumpers. Strathclyde Police said last night: "A warrant was issued for Mr Hoolahan's arrest in June 1999.

"So far, we have been unable to trace his whereabouts." i

Last night we passed on our dossier on Hoolahan to Northumbria Police and the Thai authorities.

Northumbria Police said: "We received a report from a member of the press suggesting that this individula was in Thailand. We are working with Interpol in relation to this report."

Until recently, Hoolahan rented a flat in Bangkok on Soi Cowboy but left owing rent. He split his time between there and Cha-am on the Gulf of Thailand, where he worked as a contractor specialising in home renovations.

His favourite haunt is the Tilac sex-for-sale bar on sleazy Soi Cowboy, a magnet for the sex tourists who flock to Thailand from the west.

The country offers tourists amazing culture, beaches, food and adventure.

But that is of little interest to the middle-aged men who travel there to spend holidays preying on prostitutes, male and femal, who are forced into the sex trade through poverty.

In recent years, increasing numbers of UK fugitives from justice have also used Thailand as a bolthole.

Earlier this month, two Britons were caught by Thai police.

Stuart Crawford, 44, is the prime suspect in the Semtpeber 2008 murder of his friend Michael Ryan in London.

John Fletcher, 66, was wanted in Cambodia on child sex charges.

The arrests were part of a crackdown on foreign criminal suspects in a bid to shed the country's image as a haven for those evading the law.

dailyrecord.co.uk

www.sundaysun.co.uk/news/north-east-news/2010/08/22/north-s-most-wanted-found-in-bangkok-bar-79310-27111086/

Originally Posted by Drummondbkk

www.sundaysun.co.uk/news/north-east-news/2010/08/22/north-s-most-wanted-found-in-bangkok-bar-79310-27111086/

LOUNGING in the midday sunshine, this is fugitive rape suspect George Hoolahan enjoying the high life in Thailand.

Originally Posted by Mid

Originally Posted by Drummondbkk

www.sundaysun.co.uk/news/north-east-news/2010/08/22/north-s-most-wanted-found-in-bangkok-bar-79310-27111086/

LOUNGING in the midday sunshine, this is fugitive rape suspect George Hoolahan enjoying the high life in Thailand.

High Life ?

^To the fucking idiots who write this sensationalist crap, sitting on the sidewalk drinking a beer by yourself probably does represent the high life.

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

^To the fucking idiots who write this sensationalist crap, sitting on the sidewalk drinking a beer by yourself probably does represent the high life.

He is hardly LOUNGING.

I'll sleep well tonight."

Bet he will.

Between two 18 yr old gogo girls.

Originally Posted by Mid

But that is of little interest to the middle-aged men who travel there to spend holidays preying on prostitutes, male and femal, who are forced into the sex trade through poverty.

he forgot to add the usual bald and overweight

Originally Posted by 12Call

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

^To the fucking idiots who write this sensationalist crap, sitting on the sidewalk drinking a beer by yourself probably does represent the high life.

He is hardly LOUNGING.

He isn't lounging. It was not midday it was 4.30 pm. It was not a posh bar it was the Victoria in Sukhumvit Soi 7 - but you know they speak different languages in Newcastle, Glasgow and London. And the bar may have been posh by Geordie standards and I guess it was 10.30 'way hay' time.

Original story is here. No faff

http://www.andrew-drummond.com/2010/08/22/wanted-british-rapist-tracked-down-to-bangkoks-red-light-area/

Nice one Andrew.