Alan Wilson (Irish criminal)
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Alan Wilson is an Irish criminal who is part of the Kinahan Organised Crime Group.[1]
Marioara Rostas was an eighteen-year-old from Romania who disappeared from Dublin city centre on 6 January 2008.[2] She had been begging with one of her brothers at the junction of Pearse Street and Lombard Street.[2] Her brother saw her get into a car and when he went over to it the driver said they were going to McDonald's for food and would return later.[2] She phoned relatives in Romania before she disappeared.[2]
She was killed by four shots to her head.[2] Her body was buried in a shallow grave in the Dublin/Wicklow Mountains and was not discovered until 2012.[2][3]
Alan Wilson went on trial for her murder in 2014 and pleaded not guilty.[4] The jury found him not guilty.[4]
Meat cleaver attack
On 3 June 2009 Wilson and David Crowley broke into a house in Blanchardstown and attacked a man with a meat cleaver.[5] They were convicted in 2013 with Wilson being sentenced to seven years and Crowley to eight.[5]
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.[6] The Supreme Court directed there could be a retrial for Wilson, but counsel for the Director of Public Prosecutions told the court there would be no retrial as Wilson had, with remission, served most of his sentence.[6]