Charities given Westport prostitute’s money

Charities given Westport prostitute’s money


Money that was confiscated from a woman arrested on suspicion of running a brothel in Westport in 2007 has been divided between Western Care and the Carers’ Association.
Farah-Din Sayara Crewe was arrested on July 21, 2007, following complaints of suspicious activity at an apartment on James’s Street, Westport. Gardaí confiscated €2,395 in cash from the apartment, and when interviewed by gardaí, Ms Crewe admitted that she had worked in a number of locations around the country.
Ms Crewe had been in Westport for up to nine days. She operated on her own, however, and there was not enough evidence of operating a brothel. Ms Crewe has since left the jurisdiction, and gardaí have been unable to contact her at the address she provided.
At last week’s sitting of Westport District Court, an application was made by Sergeant Denis Harrington for the disposal of the evidence. Superintendent Mick Murray explained that the Gardaí had unsuccessfully tried to contact Ms Crewe to come to court to claim the money and that the decision was up to Judge Mary Devins to decide what to do with it.
When asked what he thought should be done with the money, Supt Murray said he had reservations given the immorality of how it was earned. Judge Devins said he didn’t know that, and pointed out that in Amsterdam she would have been a ‘working girl’. Supt Murray quipped that “She was ‘a working girl’ in Ireland too.”
It was decided to divide the money equally between Judge Devins’s choice of the Carers’ Association, which she said were the ‘unsung heros and heroines in Ireland’ and Supt Murray’s charity of choice, Western Care.