Violent thug’s close links to one of the alleged leaders of ‘Family’ gang
Crime World
This episode explores the deep-seated connections between Jamie Gagan and 'The Family,' a powerful criminal organization based in Dublin. Th
Key takeaways
- Jamie Gagan was sentenced to six years for assault and false imprisonment involving the torture of a man.
- Michael Grendon is identified by the CAB as the operations manager for 'The Family' gang.
Main topics
- The Family gang hierarchy
- Criminal Assets Bureau investigations
Notable quotes
It's very quiet, isn't it? Some would say it's the calm before the storm.
Conclusion
The episode highlights the sophisticated and interconnected nature of
Transcript preview
Speaker 2 (0:01) Britain's murder cases are full of twists, secrets and unanswered questions. I'm Stuart Blues, host of British Murders, the podcast where I delve into the cases that shocked Britain. We explore the victims, the investigations, the killers and the twists that kept these stories in the headlines. From notorious serial killers to forgotten local cases. Search British Murders with Stuart Blues wherever you get your podcasts and discover the stories behind the headlines. Speaker 1 (0:38) A criminal jailed for his role in the abduction and torture of a man has been directly linked to the crime organisation known as The Family. An affidavit presented to the High Court by the Criminal Assets Bureau details the extensive connections between Jamie Gagan and Michael Grendon, whose brother Brian is before the courts for directing a criminal organisation. Today I'm talking with Eamon Dillon and you're listening to Crime World, a podcast from crimeworld.com. Speaker 1 (1:05) Eamon, we're going to start this story by you explaining who the gangster Jamie Gagan is and why he's significant. Speaker 3 (1:13) Jamie Gagan is one of these people that came out of the blue as far as I was concerned, you know, via the Criminal Access Bureau hearings. The first time I saw him, he was brought in by prison officers in handcuffs into High Court where he said he had no interest in contesting the case against him. So basically, Cabo went after a modular home at the back of his house in Shank Castle in Clondalkin. They were after his Skoda car and some other bits and pieces, including jewellery. And there was a number of people named in this affidavit. There was a couple of respondents as well. But it laid bare his role as a significant drug dealer in the west of Dublin, one of the most significant, in fact, in that area, in Llandawkin. And his gang also involved in a serious feud with the nephew of John Gilligan, Dylan Gilligan, in which there'd been a number of very violent incidents over the years. And he was, one of the key parts then was that, you know, in the... The belief evidence, they singled out a member of the family, which is the Ballyfermot-based gang that is seen now as one of the major players in the Irish scene, you know, since the, I suppose, the Kinnahan cartel are more an international brokerage at this stage. But on the ground, the family are one of the key gangs, the key outfits. Yeah, they Speaker 1 (2:33) sort of... grew giant after the dismantling of the Kinnaghan organisation from 2016 onwards. And they control, are believed to control an awful lot of the drug supply across the country. They have their own network of traffickers from... Turkey with the heroin, was it? Yeah. With the cocaine. Yeah. I mean, there Speaker 3 (2:57) would have been, if you remember when we talked about Marcus Sweeney, he met two people on behalf of a member, a leading member of the family as well. And that was two Turkish people, one of them based in the UK, had come over to do a deal. And it was, I think the evidence given was that this was about to be the start of something. new and beautiful for the gangs and there was quite a large amount of heroin that those guys served time, significant enough time here. So, I mean, they've been at it a while. So Jamie Bacon was Speaker 1 (3:27) in cuffs when you first saw him, so he's obviously in custody for something. Speaker 3 (3:30) Yeah, he's serving time. He's serving a lengthy enough sentence, I think it was eight years he got, over the abduction and torture of a man. So it was his role in that. So this guy was grabbed from a house in Unger in West Dublin and he was brought to a location. There was a caravan just near Liffey Valley Shopping Centre, actually, a little kind of island between the motorway and the car parks and all the rest. And the guards had been alerted. They were looking for this guy. They suspect that he had stolen a cache of drugs from the family. And this is why he was being targeted. So this man was bundled into a grey Land Cruiser. He gave evidence. He kind of knew what was coming. He swallowed, I think, some cocaine he had on him to numb the pain. And by the time the police got to him, there was only something like 22 minutes between the 999 call and where he was found. He'd been punched in the head. He'd been hooded. He was only wearing shorts when the guards found him. He had serious injuries. He'd been hit with what they think was a machete. He'd been cut with wires. And he was extensive injuries was how they put it in evidence. And that he was in considerable distress was the understatement. And this is what he was, you know, he'd been, you know, tied with a bloodied phone charging cable. They found a hunting knife, a claw hammer, a machete-type weapon, which they said was used. His shin had been fractured. There's fractures in both hands. And, of course, he told Gardaí he remembered nothing of the attack, only waking in a hospital after being bundled into the vehicle. So Jamie Gagan, he got, sorry, six years for assault and false imprisonment. And more recently, a man called Gerard McCormack, he got 10 years for false imprisonment on behalf of a crime gang. And that crime gang, of course, is the family that he was there as the eyes and ears. And Gagan, he was spotted bundling the man into the car and outside the caravan later. But they're pretty sure that the cab case said that the victim was tied to the chair and cut with a knife by Jamie Gagan and another person. And that was a quote from the evidence given in the Criminal Access Bureau case against him. Speaker 1 (5:36) So is Gagan operating, is he part of the family network or is he operating as an enforcer for them? Speaker 3 (5:43) No, he's part of the network. He's part of their... Speaker 3 (5:48) You know, he's an integral part of their drug sales business, you know, according to the Criminal Assets Bureau. I mean, the point, I suppose, of the recent story we did was a photograph of merged of Jamie Gagin with the person that was initially described, we described him as a leading member, but he was named in the cab evidence as Michael Grendon, who the guards in their belief evidence suggests that he is the operations manager for the family. That's him on the right. That's the guy on the right on the picture, which you can see on crimeworld.com. No, it's not. Hang on, I have to look and see where it is. So the guy on... Who's the guy in the middle? The guy on the right is Jamie Gagin. The guy in the middle is Michael Grendon. And then the guy on the left is Scott Perdue, who... Is this an Speaker 1 (6:29) old picture? Speaker 3 (6:30) This is definitely an old picture, yeah. It's from some time back. Speaker 1 (6:33) Because Michael Grendon would be what age now? Speaker 3 (6:35) He'd be in his 40s. And we've more up-to-date