Irish mob boss Cornelius Price is expected to be buried in the UK in days — saving gardai the headache of a major security operation here.
The Irish Mirror has learned that gardai received information that a funeral service is to take place on Monday in Britain. Evil Price – who had a tattoo of Satan across his back – died in a Welsh hospital on February 19 having spent over a year in a coma suffering from a brain disease.
A source said: “The latest information gardai have been given is that the funeral and burial is to take place in the UK. It was on the Garda’s radar because of the policing plan that would have had to be put in place if it was to take place here.”
Sources have also claimed that relatives of the thug would never let him be buried in the same graveyard as Benny Whitehouse. Whitehouse was murdered by Price’s gang in Balbriggan, north Dublin in September 2014 as part of a long-running drugs feud.
The gun victim’s funeral took place in Balbriggan and he was laid to rest at Balscadden Old School Cemetery. Price had roots in Balbriggan having lived there for many years, remaining active in the area after he had based himself in a compound in Gormanston in Co Meath.
Another source said: “The logical location for the funeral and burial would have been in the Balbriggan area. But there’s no way Price’s family will bury him where Benny Whitehouse is.
“He got Whitehouse killed, he hated him.” As a result of the murder, gardai believe Price was directly involved in killing Willie Maughan and his pregnant partner Ana Varslavane in April 2015.
He feared Willie and his girlfriend – whose remains have never been recovered – knew key information about Whitehouse’s death and would leak it. Speaking after Price’s death, Willie’s father Joe said: “I wish death on nobody but if there’s one person in the world that deserves to die it’s him. I hope he burns now in hell. He’s done evil things. Evil has to be dealt with. You don’t get away with evil.”
Price was also linked to the murders of Keith Branigan in Clogherhead, Louth in August 2019 and Robbie Lawlor in Belfast in 2020 in the Drogheda feud.
His death marked the end of nearly two decades in organised crime, having teamed up with Drogheda gang leader Owen Maguire in the early 2000s.
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