Tag: Ian Withers
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The Irish Paedophile Priest.
Late in 1999, I received an approach from a Californian law firm that were seeking the location of a paedophile priest. It was understood that he had returned to his native Ireland. But the lawyers were worried. They knew Ireland was a largely Catholic country and feared an agency such as mine might not want…
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The Vanishing Broker. By Ian Withers
Dublin in 1996 was not exactly a hotbed of Russian activities, I had been on a few occasions to their Embassy to get visas to travel to Moscow, always rather dour staff, polite, efficient and never smiling, they carefully questioned the purpose of going to Russia, and if one had sufficient financial resources to cover…
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Old Bailey bombing.
I woke with a start; an eye watering stench was catching in the back of my throat! My brother was sitting on the end of his bunk looking quite sullen, before I said anything, he pointed his finger at me and said, “Don’t say a bloody word!” I lay still, my body aching from another…
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Hyde Park
I first ‘blew in” to Ireland in 1965, to hunt down the alleged gay sexual partner of British Politician and Liberal Party leader, Jeremy Thorpe. I developed an affinity to Ireland, and later opened offices in both Belfast and Dublin providing the whole spectrum of PI services to the legal profession, industry and commerce and…
