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Liam 'Creepy' Crawley
The podgy pensioner pictured here, is a major pimp who preys on vulnerable teenage girls and young single mums.
Liam ‘Creepy’ Crawley specialises in targeting drug dependent youngsters – many of them addicted to heroin – whom he then persuades to become prostitutes in order to pay off debts they had run up to drug dealers.
A recovering alcoholic and chronic gambler Crawley – who weighs in at 20 stone – also likes to recruit young women with drink problems to his lucrative sex-for-sale empire, which he has been operating on both sides of the border for over 30 years.
But before giving hard up young women the chance to pay off their drugs and drinks bills by working in his brothel home, the roly-poly 65 year-old, insists on “sexually interviewing” them first.
“I need to sample the goods first!” he tells the girls.
And when the Sunday World caught up with Liam ‘Creepy’ Crawley this week, he freely admitted running working girls in the past. However, he insisted, he had now quit the brothel business.
“That was years ago. I gave all that up a long time ago. It’s a rubbish business, rubbish! There’s no money in it,” he said.
And when we asked him if he had any pangs of conscience about persuading drugs and drink dependent young girls and single mothers to sell their bodies for sex, he said: “Right that’s enough!”
A former nite club bouncer, the self-proclaimed hard man previously worked as a taxi driver in Dundrum, Co. Down.
He is well known to the police in Dundalk, where he now plies his vile trade.
For well over three decades ‘Creepy’ Crawley has operated a number of brothels on both sides of border, including one right under the noses of the Gardai in the Co. Louth town.
He operated a brothel from a house in Stapleton Terrace, near Dundalk Garda station , and then moved to a rented house on the Castletown Road.
The property was repeatedly raided by gardai looking for drugs and in November 2012 it was petrol bombed and destroyed.
The pensioner pimp now lives in a rented house at Ardshee, a private development on the outskirts of the seaside village of Blackrock on the Louth coast.
However, our investigations revealed ‘Creepy’ Crawley continues to run vul
nerable drug and drink dependent working girls from this address.
And he regularly boasts of his ‘close friendship’ with leading republicans telling friends and foes alike: “ I know all the boys in the IRA in this town.”
Today the Sunday World reveals details of interviews with two young-heroin addicted hookers who were forced to turn to prostitution and became entangled in Crawley’s web of evil.
They broke their silence to lift the lid on Crawley’s dirty dealings, in the hope that it would deter other young women from having anything to do with him.
‘Mollie’, an emaciated 21-year-old single woman, told us she first met pumped-up pimp Liam Crawley when she was still a pupil at the St Louis Convent School in Dundalk.
Along with other school friends, she began calling at Crawley’s terrace cottage home on the town’s Castletown Road.
“We used to walk past his house on the way home from school and he would be at the door chatting to other schoolgirls,” says ‘Mollie’.
“Eventually we stopped to talk to him too. I was struck right away by the way he knew so much about the things that interested young people. And he was up to date with social media as well as music.
“I suppose he made it easy for us to start calling in after school. There were other young people there who were a bit older, so it made us feel as though we were grown up.
“They were all talking about drugs and the hit they gave you, so I suppose it was only a matter of time before I wanted to try them out for myself.
“I’m now hooked on heroin and I can’t get off it,” said Mollie, whose death-like appearance makes her look older than her 21 years.
After leaving the prestigious Dundalk convent school where she showed academic potential, ‘Mollie’ held down a job for a while. But as her drug dependency increased, her work hours became erratic and she was sacked.
“I don’t blame my employers or my parents. They really couldn’t have done anymore for me,” she says.
“But once I’d lost my job it was only a matter of time before my mother and father told me to leave the family home.
“I had nowhere to go, so Liam Crawley offered to put me up at his house on the Castletown Road. He had three working girls operating there.
“I had no money but very soon I owed money for drugs. He told me I could pay off my debts by selling myself.
“He said I could operate as a prostitute and as long as he got a share of the money, everything would be ok,” says Mollie.
“Eventually I agreed. But I had to have sex with him first.
“He then got me clients immediately. But he wouldn’t let them cross the door unless they gave him 30 quid up front for the hire of a bedroom for 30 minutes. I would get around e100 to e150, but I had to give him a cut of that.
“The police raided the house regularly, but Crawley said he wasn’t bothered about them.
“They were looking for drugs. They bust in the door, but all they got was two pieces of tin foil with a trace of heroin. There was no evidence he had anything to do with it.
“And he also said he wasn’t concerned about the IRA because he was well got with them. Liam once told us he has been running working girls in Dundalk for over 30 years.
“I really felt as though I had no choice but to agree to work for him.
“And of course, once the heroin has a hold of you, you can’t think straight. I knew I was on this treadmill and there was nothing I could do about it.
“That man doesn’t care about the girls. Crawley only cares about himself,” said ‘Mollie’.
And she added: “Liam Crawley is evil. Pure evil!”
A second drug dependent hooker, who was too ill to endure a lengthy interview, told us: “This man should be jailed for what he’s done to young women like us. Look at us – we’re the walking dead.”