Alan Wilson is an Irish criminal who is part of the

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Murder of Marioara Rostas

Marioara Rostas was an eighteen-year-old from

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who disappeared from

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city centre on 6 January 2008. She had been begging with one of her brothers at the junction of

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and Lombard Street. Her brother saw her get into a car and when he went over to it the driver said they were going to

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for food and would return later. She phoned relatives in Romania before she disappeared. She was killed by four shots to her head. Her body was buried in a shallow grave in the Dublin/Wicklow mountains and was not discovered until 2012. Alan Wilson went on trial for her murder in 2014 and pleaded not guilty. The jury found him not guilty.

Meat cleaver attack

On 3 June 2009 Wilson and David Crowley broke into a house in

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and attacked a man with a meat cleaver. They were convicted in 2013 with Wilson being sentenced to seven years and Crowley to eight. In 2017 he won an appeal over the conviction on the grounds that the offence he was charged with was different from the one he was cautioned and questioned about. The

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directed there could be a retrial for Wilson, but councel for the

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told the court there would be no retrial as Wilson had, with remission, served most of his sentence.

Players Lounge shooting

In 2010 three men were shot at the Players Lounge in Fairview. Two of them suffered life-altering injuries. None of them were the intended target of the shooting. Wilson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder persons unknown and to firearms offences. He said he was approached by

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s in relation to the crime and denied being in a gang. A retired member of the

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testified that in 2017 he believed Wilson was a member of the Kinahan gang. He was sentenced to ten years for conspiracy and seven and a half years for the firearms offences. Charges of attempted murder of the three men were dropped after the DPP entered a

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Attempted murder of Gary Hanley

In 2019 he was convicted of conspiring to murder Gary Hanley in an ongoing feud. He was sentenced to six years imprisonment.

References

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