A Spanish National Police spokesperson said: “The victims, of Romanian nationality, were flown from Romania to Tenerife and once there they travelled in cars belonging to the members of the organization to the towns of Adeje and Arona. Likewise, and from Spain, they were regularly transferred to London (United Kingdom) by air. In all these places they were forced to practice prostitution in hostess clubs or in flats.
“The members of this criminal organization controlled their victims by forcing them to consume narcotic substances, especially cocaine, often provided by the pimps themselves, all with the aim of overriding their will and being more profitable for the business.
AN OUT-of-work chef caught selling heroin substitute metadone on the street was financing his own drug addiction at the time, a court heard.
After he got clean, Farzad Tavakolipour (54) was left with a €2,000 drug debt and stole petrol from a filling station so he could drive his pregnant girlfriend around.
Judge Bryan Smyth gave him a four-month suspended sentence and fined him €200.
Tavakolipour, of Inverness Road, Fairview, pleaded guilty to possession of methadone for sale or supply, and theft.
Dublin District Court heard gardaí were on patrol at Townsend Street on May 20, 2019 when they saw the accused, who was in a car, interact with another man.
New prison mugshots of killers Tom and Molly Martens have been released, as the father-daughter duo remain in jail in the US without bond pending a decision on their plea bargain offer.
The former FBI agent and his daughter are now discussing a deal which would see them avoid a full retrial for the brutal murder of Irish widower Jason Corbett in August 2015. A decision on their plea bargain offer is due within 72 hours.
Both have been offered a controversial plea bargain in which they were given seven days to admit the voluntary manslaughter of the Limerick father-of-two (39) who was beaten to death while asleep in bed.
A FATHER-of-three accused of burgling two businesses in the course of a weekend was allegedly identified through DNA found on two socks left at the scene.
Michael Daly (42) was arrested over the burglary at the offices of Aer Rianta and a medical centre in a Dublin business park, where a large quantity of property is alleged to have been stolen.
Judge John O Leary refused to grant him bail and remanded him in custody.
Mr Daly, with an address at Moatview Drive, Priorswood, is charged with two counts of burglary.
The offences are alleged to have happened at Aer Rianta International and Fresenius Medical Care Centre, both at Grattan House, City Junction Business Park, Malahide Road.
Paige Turley and Finley Tapp were crowned the winners of the first-ever winter Love Island in early 2020. Photo: Andrew Matthews/PA
It has also been reported that all contestants will be flown out around the same time - including any bombshell arrivals - and they will undergo Covid tests and be quarantined before the series starts to ensure safety of the cast and crew.
While ITV bosses prepare for the upcoming summer of love in the villa, MailOnline’s insider revealed that the winter edition of the hit show has been “indefinitely postponed” in order to focus on the summer version.