The leader of a notorious Irish crime gang has died in a Welsh hospital. Cornelius Price is believed to have been behind the ruthless murders of Willie Maughan and his pregnant partner Ana Varslavane in Ireland nearly eight years ago. Their bodies have never been found.
Price, 41, was the leader of a dangerous crime gang that operated out of Gormanstown, County Meath in Ireland and which had close ties to one of the sides in the recent Drogheda feud. The Irish Mirror reports that the Gardai in Ireland have been notified about Price’s death in the UK where he had been suffering from limbic encephalitis and in a gravely ill state in a Welsh hospital since late 2021.
It had previously been reported that Price had been living in the Midlands in England but moved to Wales more recently. It has been reported he was in hospital in Cardiff. He was due to stand trial in London charged with conspiring to falsely imprison and blackmail two men in July 2020 but the trial was adjourned after it was heard he had been seriously ill in intensive care since late 2021.
