Fears pair are working as pimps targeting young women in Dundalk

Liam ‘Creepy’ Crawley’ from Blackrock

A local man and his Northern Irish partner are working as pimps targeting young women in Dundalk, according to a report in The Sunday World newspaper.

The paper claims that Liam ‘Creepy’ Crawley (65) from Blackrock and ‘Mucky’ Marty Heaney (52) from Belfast are two of Ireland’s busiest cross-border sex-for-sale merchants.

Journalist Hugh Jordan reports that parents in the area say the pair have set up business together.

“This is a partnership of perverts and it’s a very worrying development for parents of teenage girls in this area,” one worried mum told The Sunday World.

Marty Heaney

The paper claims tha Crawley likes to target youngsters – many hooked on heroin – persuading them to sell their bodies for sex, while grabbing a substantial percentage for himself in the process.

Heaney allegedly coaxes cash-strapped teens to join his ‘Surprise Surprise’ stripogram service, which according to reports is a “thinly-veiled cover for prostitution.”

Concerned parents contacted the Sunday World after spotting the pair prowling the streets of Dundalk, near to where a teenage schoolgirls’ summer reunion was taking place.

Crawley and Heaney were seen chatting to the youngsters as the girls made their way to a local hotel where the function was due to start.

Sunday World inquiries revealed that the sex creeps offered to give some of the girls a lift home when the gathering was over. Heaney even tried to obtain phone numbers from some of them.

Crawley and Heaney have also been reportedly spotted around the back streets on nights when it is known a teenage disco operates in the town.

Last week, one mum interviewed by the Sunday World said the appearance of these men on the streets was a very worrying development.

“We know about these people and as a result of what has appeared in the press already we recognised them immediately,” she said.

“I want to send out a word of warning to all parents with young girls to be on the lookout for these men.”

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Source and pictures: The Sunday World

Blackrock man identified as a “major pimp”

The Sunday World article about Liam Crawley

A man from the Blackrock area has been identified by the Sunday World newspaper as a “major pimp who preys on vulnerable teenager girls and young single mums”.

Liam ‘Creepy’ Crawley is said to specialise in targetting drug dependent youngsters – many of whom are addicted to heroin – who he then allegedly persuades to become prostitutes in order to pay off debts they had run up to drug dealers.

According to the newspaper, the pensioner has operated the sex empire on both sides of the border for over 30 years althoug he did tell reporter Hugh Jordan that he had now quit the brothel business, saying there was no money in it.

A former nightclub bouncer, the paper claims Crawley ran a brothel “right under the noses” of gardaí in Dundalk having operated from a house in Stapleton Terrace before relocating to a rented house on the Castletown Road.

The Sunday World claimed that the house was repeatedly raided by Gardaí looking for drugs and was petrol bombed and destroyed in November 2012.

Crawley, who now lives in Ardshee in Blackrock, is alleged to still be running working girls from this address.

One girl who spoke to the paper claim she was recruited while attending St Louis Secondary School.