Sonya Collier (34) admitted at Dundalk Circuit Court to laundering €13,448 (£11,725) through her Revolut account
13:42, 25 Feb 2026Updated 15:21, 25 Feb 2026
Paul Crosby with Sonya Collier
A former partner of notorious criminal Paul Crosby is to be sentenced later for “being a money mule” – laundering proceeds of crime on behalf of the Boylan Organised Crime Group.
Sonya Collier (34) admitted at Dundalk Circuit Court to laundering €13,448 (£11,725) through her Revolut account on April 7, 2021.
Collier, from The Meadows, Dry Bridge, Drogheda, Co Louth, was described in court by a garda witness as a “very close associate of a high-ranking member of the Boylan Organised Crime Group,” adding that she had been in a relationship for many years with Paul Crosby.
The crime group, the court heard previously, is allegedly headed by two brothers involved in the sale of drugs in the Drogheda area.
Keith Boylan (30) of Moneymore in Drogheda was named by a garda witness in a previous money laundering case, as “the leader of the organised crime group” while his brother Josh (26) was also named in court.
“She was in a relationship with Paul Crosby for many years but is not in a relationship with him now,” Detective Garda James Durkan told Judge Dara Hayes.
Det Gda Durkan told prosecuting counsel Miska Hanahoe the background to the investigation into the money-laundering relates to organised crime in the Drogheda area and the finances of the Boylan Organised Crime Group and as a result Collier came to gardai’s attention.
Paul Crosby with Sonya Collier
A warrant was obtained and activities on a Revolut account opened up by Collier in June 2020 showed one payment of £11,725 in sterling into the account on April 7, 2021 and then four transactions transferring the money to German bank accounts on the same day.
Collier attended Drogheda Garda Station for interview by arrangement and accepted she opened the Revolut account but denied giving access to persons, that she had no knowledge of the money and had no involvement in the transactions and couldn’t understand or explain how someone got into the account.
The court heard Collier has 22 previous convictions including sale and supply of drugs, possession of drugs and 19 road traffic convictions.
Det Gda Durkan agreed with Ms Hanahoe that Collier’s involvement was “that she was a money mule in this case.”
Sonya Collier
The court heard the mother-of-two had addiction issues and at the time was “in the throes of addiction” and “was taken advantage of.”
When asked by Judge Dara Hayes how Collier’s involvement came about, Det Gda Durkan said: “She was very close to a high ranking member of the Boylan Organised Crime Group – she was in a relationship for many years with Paul Crosby.”
Defence barrister Ronan O’Carroll told the court Collier has “disassociated herself from her past,” and “made a series of bad choices over the years but she is doing well now. She has turned her back on the former life she used to lead.
“She simply wasn’t in the right frame of mind during her offending and didn’t know what she was doing,” he added.
Judge Hayes adjourned finalisation of the case until May 7 for Collier to provide four clean urine analyses and for a Probation Report to be submitted to the court.
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Paul Crosby is currently serving a 10-year prison term for his involvement in facilitating the murder of teen Keane Mulready-Woods in January 2020. In April 2020 he was jailed for four-and-a-half-years after pleading guilty to the arson of a stolen Volkswagen Polo.
Crosby was also the target of a shooting on the Bridge of Peace in the town in January 2020. A gunman tried to shoot him but shot the innocent taxi driver, leaving Crosby uninjured.
Crosby was also behind a vicious mocking phone call which ridiculed his rival Owen Maguire for being in a wheelchair and featured other insults, a recording of which went viral in 2019 during the height of the deadly Drogheda feud.
At one stage he goaded Maguire – who was left paralysed when he was shot several times in July 2018 by slain serial killer Robbie Lawlor – by asking “Do you want to go for a walk and sort this out?”
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