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Manhunt: Finding Kevin Parle

#19 Dunlough Bay

Manhunt: Finding Kevin Parle

BBC

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3.71K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Peter travels to Ireland to investigate whether the gang Parle could now be working with was involved in a huge attempted drug smuggling operation off the west Cork coast in 2007.

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

Some people really are inclined to call me.

0:11.0

Why?

0:13.0

Ian denies harboring or funding, giving power.

0:19.0

Well, he's perfectly entitled to do that.

0:22.0

I'm staggered if you say I may know him or have helped him staggered.

0:26.0

Your information is totally and absolutely off track.

0:30.0

Completely utterly.

0:32.0

I've never seen him or met him.

0:34.0

Ian was mentioned in a criminal trial back in 2008.

0:40.0

He wasn't charged, he wasn't convicted.

0:42.0

He was mentioned in the trial of a number of men

0:46.0

who eventually found guilty of importing

0:50.0

one and a half tons of cocaine

0:55.0

into Ireland.

0:56.0

But the trial had been pulled in because they never quite got there.

0:59.0

They got closer but not close enough.

1:01.0

And that consignment of cocaine

1:03.0

had a street value of 440 million euros.

1:09.0

That kind of criminal organisation

1:12.0

is exactly the type of group of people

1:16.0

who I believe are currently harboring

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