Cornelius Price

One of Ireland's most notorious criminals who was suspected in at least four gangland murders has died in hospital after a long illness.

Price was the leader of the Maguire faction in the deadly Drogheda feud and was one of the country’s biggest drugs traffickers. Price’s mob are also the chief suspects for the murder of the unsolved murder of Benny Whitehouse and Price was previously arrested for this crime. Price had been based in the UK since the gruesome murder of teenager Keane Mulready Woods in January 2020 which was carried out by mobsters opposed to him in the Drogheda feud.

Cornelius Price is believed to have been directly behind the murders of a man and his pregnant partner.

He was believed to have then spent time in Bulgaria in eastern Europe before returning to Ireland and eventually fleeing to the UK again at the height of the Drogheda feud. Price — whom Gardai believe was a key figure in one of the two gangs involved in the Drogheda feud (a bitter gangland feud sparked by a split in a drugs gang) — fled to the UK following a wave of violence in Drogheda. It was that feud that led to the horrific murder of Keane Mulready Woods, a teenager murdered in January 2020, whose death reportedly prompted Price to get directly involved and seek revenge. In February 2017 he was found guilty of endangering a garda at Balbriggan Garda Station and was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Price had been charged with conspiring to falsely imprison and blackmail the two brothers in July 2020 but his trial was adjourned indefinitely due to his ill health. Gardai suspect Maughan and his girlfriend were killed because they had too much information about the murder of another man suspected to have been killed by Price's gang.

THE chief suspect in the brutal murders of Willie Maughan and his pregnant girlfriend Ana Varslavane has died.Gang boss Cornelius Price - who led one.

He was brutally killed in a house in Drogheda and his body dismembered, with pieces found in the down and in parts of Dublin in the days that followed. [diagnosed with the condition](https://www.thesun.ie/news/7741801/crime-cornelius-price-fighting-for-life-coma-welsh-hospital/) after he was arrested by police in the UK for his role in a kidnap and blackmail plot. We also understand some of his family members travelled to Wales over the weekend after news of his condition was shared on social media. Joe added: “I don’t know wish anyone dead but he was a man who I have no doubt took a number of lives - including that of my son and his girlfriend. [murdering the couple](https://www.thesun.ie/news/8969891/willie-maughan-ana-varslavane-murder-twelve-people-know/) in April in 2015 and ordering his henchmen to bury their bodies in a shallow grave - had been suffering from the brain condition limbic encephalitis since October 2021. [Cornelius Price](https://www.thesun.ie/news/10181722/inside-garda-drogheda-gangs-feud-drug-war-louth/) - who led one of the factions in the deadly Drogheda feud with right hand man Owen Maguire - passed away at a hospital in Wales on this evening.

Irish gang boss Cornelius Price had been on trial in the UK over a kidnap and blackmail plot - but had been unable to attend court due to his serious ...

Price had a long history of run-ins with the law - driving straight at a uniformed garda at high speed in January 2014. McClean was the only one of five alleged associates of Price who was found guilty following a lengthy trial. Last month, Irishman Darren McClean - a close associate of Price, was found guilty after a two-month trial at Wood Green Crown Court in London of his role in the kidnap and £330k blackmail plot that Price was standing trial for. It is believed Price ordered their murders and the subsequent disposing of their remains in a shocking case. [murder](https://www.dailystar.co.uk/latest/murder) of a couple expecting a [ baby](https://www.dailystar.co.uk/latest/babies) eight years ago to his grave, have been informed of his death. Price was the leader of a dangerous criminal

One of the leaders of one of Drogheda's two feuding criminal gangs has died in a hospital in Wales.

One of the victims was found lying on a mattress in the back of a van driven by another Irishman Darren McClean. He also failed in his appeal against the sentence. His compound had been raided several times and he was a target not just of Operation Stratus, but also of the Garda's National Units and the Criminal Assets Bureau. His partner was also shot in the leg. The court found his "alternative" attempt to re-calibrate his entitlement to remission was "contrary to logic". He also had close ties with a number of organised crime groups, including the McCarthy-Dundon gang in Limerick.

Gardai were last night notified of Price's death in the UK, where he had been suffering from limbic encephalitis in a gravely ill state in a Welsh hospital ...

Evil has to be dealt with. I hope he burns now in hell. The remains of the tragic couple have never been recovered and evil Price now takes whatever secrets he had to his grave. “He’s done evil things. It is believed Price ordered Willie and Ana’s murders and the subsequent disposing of their remains in a shocking case which continues to make headlines. He had been on trial in the UK over a kidnap and blackmail plot but had been unable to attend court due to his serious illness.

The 41 year old was heavily involved in the Drogheda gangland feud. He was also the chief suspect in the disappearance and murder of Willie Maughan from ...

He died at a hospital in Wales last night. He had been suffering from a brain condition and died in Wales over the weekend.

Cornelius Price, 41, who gardaí believe was one of the leaders of a group involved in the Drogheda Feud died this weekend.

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