State wants to confiscate €252k made in brothel

A brothel-keeper’s prostitution operation was taking in up to €4m a year, a court has heard.

Martin ‘the Beast’ Morgan, 49, ran a brothel and prostitution business that Judge Frank O’Donnell described as a “magnificent operation, highly sophisticated and highly rewarding and not a petty little business working on a shoe string”.

Morgan with addresses at Herbert Lane, Ballsbridge, and Blackstock Rd, London, and formerly of Blacksheep Rd, Blanchardstown, was convicted in 2008 and served a three-year jail term imposed by Judge O’Donnell. He was also fined €24,000 at the time.