Our man meets Passion Dolly in brothel

Our man meets Passion Dolly in brothel

MEET the silicone-filled ‘realistic’ sex doll who is being rented out to Irishmen in a city-centre brothel at a cost of €100 per hour.

In a report this week, the Foundation for Responsible Robotics said that android love dolls are set to become increasingly common over the next 10 years.

Some scientists have even warned that there is a danger that the ‘pleasure- bots’ could lead to a decrease in real human relationships – and that they could lead to the objectification of children and women.

But while the report reads like something from a science fiction film, the Sunday World can reveal that the artificial sex trade is already under way in Dublin.

Amazingly, an artificial woman – described as “Ireland’s most realistic sex doll” – is available for rent in the heart of Dublin’s Liberties.

She is being leased out by the hour by two Eastern European sex workers who allow men to pay to spend time with her – but not remove her from the premises.

Our undercover reporter visited ‘Passion Dolly’ after answering an ad on an adult website.

It read: “Are you wasting money paying for sex… or watching porn?

Why not have the full pleasure of having sex with the most beautiful girl whenever you want and as many times as you want?

Passion Dolly is an ultra-realistic sex doll for your pleasure.

“She is made of either TPE or medical silicone and has a metal skeleton as internal structure to allow you to bend and twist the doll’s torso, head, arms and legs to pose in any sexual position you please.”

The authors of the report from the Foundation for Responsible Robotics suggested this week that the robots could encourage objectification, abuse, rape and paedophilia.

However, they also claimed they could provide help for people who find it hard to have intimate relationships – like people in care homes, people with dementia or people with disabilities.

When our reporter visited Passion Dolly this week, we were told by her Eastern European owner that an hour of Dolly’s time would cost €100, while a half an hour would cost €50.

She also told us that she worked as a prostitute and that ‘full sex’ with her would cost €80.

The well-spoken brunette led us to a dimly lit room, where the sex doll laid outstretched on a bed.

When asked how many visitors Passion Dolly has had, she explained: “We have her about a month and have had over a dozen visitors, mostly Irish men and ranging in all ages.

“Some of them are a bit lonely, a few have social problems interacting with women, while others have a fascination with dolls.”

The owner then pointed to the dressing table, where she explained that there were aides such as condoms, tissues and a pint of water in case the client got overly worked up.

Our reporter tried to move ‘Passion Dolly’ on the bed to put her in a better lighted position and was stunned when her fingers on her right hand started moving due to the vibration.

After making his excuses and leaving, our reporter engaged the doll’s owner in further conversation before leaving.

He asked her how heavy Dolly was and was told she was 50kgs, which is nearly eight stone.

She said that she had imported the doll from the U.S. for €2,500.

When asked if we could bring Dolly on a visit outside her flat to a friend’s stag party, he was told: “She hasn’t gone out of her room yet and it would be a bit unusual, but if you were able to make sure she comes back in one piece we would be able to arrange something.”

The report claims that realistic sex dolls will become commonplace over the next 10 years – but that it will take 50 years before they are able to move and talk spontaneously and have facial expressions that look truly human.

There are currently five makers of sex robots worldwide, with prices ranging from €4,500 to more than €13,200 for a ‘deluxe’ model.

A recent U.S. survey of 100 people found that two-thirds of males aged 20-61 would have sex with a robot, compared with a third of women.

But experts claim politicians and the public need to deal with the ethical issues that sex robots will pose to society and relationships.

Belfast-born Noel Sharkey, a professor of artificial intelligence and robotics at the University of Sheffield, and Dr Aimee van Wynsberghe, assistant professor in ethics and technology at a Dutch university, said governments need to introduce legislation to stop abuses of this technology.

A robot pre-programmed to resist sexual advances was effectively a rape victim, said Prof Sharkey.

“Some say it’s better to rape a robot than a person, but others think it would encourage rape,” he added.

Sharkey also wants to see the government take pre-emptive action to stop paedophile sex robots entering the U.K. “I would say there should be an import ban on those,” he said.

Gareth Chubb pictured on the streets of Belfast

THIS is Kinahan Cartel associate Gareth Chubb as he made a secret trip to Ireland this week, three weeks before Dutch authorities decide whether to convict him on firearms and attempted manslaughter charges.

The Sunday World tracked down the  gangster to a hotel in Belfast city centre on Saturday, where he met up with a number of people close to him over the last few days. 

And while Chubb may be one of ‘Ireland’s most wanted’, with both the Hutch mob and the Gardaí taking a keen interest in his whereabouts, the convicted criminal certainly didn’t dress inconspicuously.

He could be seen wearing an eye-catching salmon-coloured tracksuit – topped off with a designer leather man-bag.

Chubb (30) was arrested in Amsterdam on February 3 after allegedly pointing a firearm at a man in Smokey’s Café in Rembrandt Square. 

He was released from custody on May 24. 

Dutch prosecutors appeared before magistrates in Amsterdam on Wednesday to recommend Chubb be sentenced to four years for the offences.

However, the court has yet to make a determination on the matter. 

It was initially reported that the attempted manslaughter charges against Chubb had been dropped due to a lack of evidence.

However, this week a spokesman for the Dutch Justice Department told the Sunday World: “The prosecutors recommended a four year sentence for attempted manslaughter and illegal possession of a firearm if he is found guilty. The verdict will be announced on July 26.”

The spokesman added that Chubb was not obliged to be in court for this week’s hearing and was free to travel to Ireland. 

It is believed he came in through Northern Ireland to avoid the attention of Gardaí and rival criminals. 

Security sources said they had received intelligence Chubb was back in Ireland, but said he had not been spotted by Gardaí in the Republic. 

Gardaí want to speak to him in relation to minor offences and were actively seeking him this week.

However, the Sunday World found him at his Belfast bolthole, where he looked like he hadn’t a care in the world. 

He met up with a number of people including his brother Jonathan on the trip. 

While he might be trying to keep a low profile, Chubb wasn’t exactly incognito as he strolled around the city.

Chubb visited restaurants, bars and went on a shopping spree during his trip to Belfast. He looked tired as he walked around yawning after a boozy Friday night. 

Security sources said he may also have visited Dublin while on the trip home, but he was not spotted by Gardaí in the capital. 

As well as Gardaí wanting to speak to him, Chubb has been under threat from rival criminals and was previously told there was a threat to his life. 

He has close links to some of the most senior members of the Kinahan Cartel. 

While he is free to enjoy himself for the time being, he must return to the Netherlands for his court hearing on July 26. 

Armed Dutch police swooped on Smokey’s Café on Sunday February 2 after reports that Chubb had pulled a firearm on a Dutch citizen originally from Nigeria.  It is alleged an argument broke out between Chubb and a man before the Dubliner pulled a firearm on him. Witnesses believe the weapon jammed. 

Customers in the bar flagged down armed officers who entered the bar with their weapons drawn. 

Chubb and three associates – one from Inchicore in Dublin and two from the UK – were arrested as part of the operation. When police searched the premises they discovered a Glock pistol, a Walther PPK, another pistol and a silencer. 

Two years ago the Sunday World revealed how Chubb brought a group of pals on a trip to Prague where they took part in weapons training.

Chubb’s cousin Jay O’Connor was the intended target of a gun attack which claimed the life of innocent man Keith Walker in 2015. Christopher McDonald from East Wall was convicted of Mr Walker’s murder this week.

McCollum and Hamidovic pose together

MICHAELLA McCollum’s convict boyfriend today breaks his silence on their jailhouse romance to claim he bribed Peruvian authorities to allow the drug mule to walk free from prison – with cash from his international drugs business.

In an exclusive interview with the Sunday World, Bosnian gangster Anthony Javier Hamidovic (below, 26), says he paid more than $60,000 (£50,000) to corrupt Peruvian security figures to allow McCollum to return to Ireland.

However, the criminal says he was left heartbroken when the 24-year-old turned her back on him as soon as she touched down in Ireland, because she wanted fame and fortune.

Speaking from his prison cell in Peru, the drugs boss, who was sentenced to 22 years for cartel activities, also makes a series of sensational claims about his former flame.

They include how:

• He showered McCollum with cash and expensive gifts;
• Paid for her to set up a beauty salon behind bars;
• Bribed officials to bring her to his prison cell;
• Set the former model up with an apartment, personal driver and bodyguard when she lived in Peru; and
• The couple planned to start a new life together as soon as he was freed.

Speaking this week, the criminal said: “I had feelings for Michaella, but she disappointed me and now I feel used and betrayed. All she wants is popularity, she wants to be a celebrity and I think she also wants to say her boyfriend is a gangster – but she will not use my name.

The Sunday World revealed last month how the Co. Tyrone drug mule (23), struck up a relationship with the criminal after she was jailed for trying to smuggle £1.5 million of cocaine out of Lima airport alongside Scottish girl Melissa Reid in 2013 (below).

In exclusive pictures, we revealed how the couple enjoyed secret prison trysts and sent each other lovesick messages over social media on smuggled phones. Hamidovic revealed how he pursued the former model after hearing about her case from a friend.

“I wrote a letter to her and she replied straight away,” he told the Sunday World.

“I was in Sarita Colonia prison in Lima and she was in another jail not far away. We were friends at the beginning, but things progressed. We started to see each other for emotional support. 

“We would write letters weekly. Sometimes she would ask me to phone her family for her because sometimes her jail would have no electric and she could not use the phone.

“I would also send her money, clothes, food – normal things that I would do if I was on the outside looking after a friend.

“After my birthday in June 2014 she told me she wanted to open a beauty centre in Ancon prison, so I got her the money to open it.”

The 26 year-old said due to his power within the prison – where he has his own room, plasma TV and kitchen –  he was able to bribe officials with cash he made from his drugs business to meet up with McCollum.

“I paid someone to go to her jail with false documents to say she needed to go to court. I only saw her for two hours the first time, but I arranged for another meeting at the court.

“Then a few months later I paid again, and we met at the hospital. It was a lot of money – $1,000 for each court [meeting] and $2,000 for the hospital [meeting].

“We got on well because I could tell she could feel my empathy. When I looked into her eyes I could tell that she was a tough girl trying to act cold, but she wasn’t cold. She was a normal girl who made a mistake.”

The pair fell head-over-heels for each other, with McCollum even planning a life with the Bosnian-born criminal outside of prison.

“I asked her, ‘do you want to go home or do you want to stay in Peru?’ And she said ‘no, I want to stay in Peru, I want to try with you’. 

“But she did not want to be in that prison anymore. So I talked to my lawyers, I talked to the judge, we settled down and we put a price. I paid and she was released. It was very high – $50,000. I had to pay so much because she had not finished her sentence.

“She did not ask me to pay this, but she did say to me ‘Tony, if there is anything you can do to help me get out, then please do it’.

“She knew the money was from drugs, because I told her. I did not want to lie to her.”

Hamidovic – who allegedly runs his section of the prison, where he is ‘top dog’ – claims that as a result of this alleged payment, McCollum was released on parole in April 2016.

It was initially reported she would spend her time working as a missionary with a Peruvian priest in Lima. However, Hamidovic said that was not the case.

“She walked free and she moved in with her friend Kaouthar [Essafi] straight away. That only lasted three weeks because they had a falling out. She asked me to help her find an apartment and I did. I also got her a driver and a bodyguard. I was paying about $2,500 a month, which is a lot of money in Peru.”

McCollum spent her time eating out, partying and shopping in the posh Miraflores area of Lima, but continued to make weekly visits to see her boyfriend in his prison cell.

However, just weeks after being released their relationship was rocked by claims she had met someone else while on the outside.

“She denied it and I believed her,” he said. 

“Then one of the weeks she came to the jail and asked me to help her get back home.

“I agreed, because at that stage I thought I was going to spending 22 years in prison, my sentence had not been reduced at this time.

“So I paid another $10,000 for them to deport Michaella back home. The last time I saw her was the same day she flew home to Ireland. She came here, we spent time in my room.

“I was sad when she left, I cried for like five days. That was the last of my money as well, which Michaella knew.

“She promised that she would repay me some of the money with media interviews, but then when she got back home she told me that her family did not want her to do anything with the media.”

Hamidovic says the relationship soured almost as soon as the drug mule returned to her Co. Tyrone home.

“Every day we were in contact. Then she changed her phone number and then I found out that she had ended up with that man in Peru. She admitted to it. It was over for me then. The only thing she had to do was go back home, find a normal job, lead a normal life – like I planned to do – and we would have a normal life together when I got out. 

“But that’s not what she wants, she wants money and fame. And that made me sad because I believe I could have been good for her. 

“I never meant to have a relationship with Michaella but unfortunately that’s what happened. I don’t regret it because even if it is f***ed up, everything happens for a reason. 

“For that part of my life, being with her, it helped me to see life from another point of view. But she disappointed me. The gangster – who denies he is linked to a global child exploitation racket which saw his father and brothers arrested in Bosnia – says he hopes to be freed soon from prison after successfully appealing his sentence.

He says he plans to travel to Spain to live with his mother and start a “new life”.

“I don’t have to show anyone but my family that I am a changed man,” he said. 

“Yes it is true, I was a drug dealer and I made lots of money but I did not use kids to make money. I am not a trafficker, that is a huge charge and I am not someone who uses kids to do work. All I want to do is start a new life and forget about the past.”

North Korea

Britain, France and Japan have called for a speedy vote on a UN resolution that would impose new sanctions against North Korea following its tests of an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Russia said the text still needs to be discussed and there is no agreement yet.

The US gave China, North Korea's neighbour and ally, a proposed resolution several weeks ago and ambassadors from both countries said on July 25 they were making progress.

Several diplomats said the two countries are close to agreement.

France's UN ambassador Francois Delattre said his government would like to see a resolution adopted "in the very coming days".

Britain's ambassador Matthew Rycroft said he hopes it will be "very soon".

Koro Bessho of Japan said "days rather than weeks".

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A man was shot several times this evening in a west Dublin gun attack.

Gardai are currently at the scene of the shooting in the Mulhuddart area of west Dublin.

Reports suggest that the victim is receiving treatment at the scene of the attack.

The incident occurred just before 8.20pm this evening.

The victim, in his 30s, is thought to be in a serious condition.

It is understood that the man was shot up to six times by a gunman.

The shooting comes just three days after notorious criminal Mark 'Guinea Pig' Desmond was gunned down in Lucan on Friday evening.

More to follow

Dealer meets our reporter

SLEAZY drug dealers are placing ads on Irish adult websites offering to give away “weed” and “Charlie” in exchange for “no strings attached” sex.

These ads – which have all been placed online this month – show how dealers are openly offering to swap ‘sex for drugs’.

Many of the ads contain the reference ‘420’ – a popular code-term for marijuana use.

As part of a Sunday World investigation, we discovered 32 adverts on just one adult website offering drugs in exchange for sex acts.

One advertisement placed on Tuesday, entitled “Weed Swap for adult fun – m4w”, targeted young female drug users, with the dealer promising them he is “clean and very honest”.

It read: “I am looking to swap a bit of weed for some NSA adult fun. Nothing unusual, just some no drama, adult, nsa [no strings attached] fun.”

Following an exchange of emails, the Dubliner – who is in his early 40s – offered to exchange marijuana for sexual favours, saying he would hand over: “A couple of Grams, around 5. Depends whats on the cards.”

Our reporter arranged to meet him in Dublin city centre, and after exchanging pleasantries, the pint-sized druggie was straight down to business.  

He said: “What’s your limit? I have four grams. I don’t want to be going over the line.”  

He explained that he expected a massage or oral relief, but, when asked about sex, he said: “I would love to but that’s up to you – that’s why I didn’t want to ask, you draw the line.  

“If you want something regular I can definitely fix you up with that, that’s no problem. It’s Irish and it’s not imported.  I get an ounce at a time.

“I am dead honest, dead straight and discreet and you can trust me. 

“I am open-minded, I was looking for someone like-minded who likes to smoke, that’s the main point, you’re sound as well.”  

Admitting that he was nervous to meet our undercover reporter, who posed as a business student, he said:  “When you are meeting people you just don’t know who they are. I was thinking: ‘I hope you are not a garda’.”  

Eager to set up a date for sex, he said: “Are you free today or the rest of the week? I am working everywhere, I work for an agency so I am in between jobs, it’s actually okay.  
“At the moment I am doing days, in at seven and off at three, that type of thing. Weekends I am kinda free, free the daytime, night-time. So are you okay with everything, have you got Whatsapp? 

“When are you back in college and how are you fixed for the weekdays? I am looking forward to it.”

Admitting that he was “chancing his arm” when he posted the ad, he said: “I am the only weirdo to put it up.”  

So-called ‘sex-for-drugs’ personal ads have been the target of major crackdowns in the U.S. and police have run sting operations in Washington, New York and Louisiana.

However, Irish druggies are openly offering to exchange illegal narcotics for sex – in defiance of our laws on drugs possession.

One ad, entitled “420 for a bj”, was placed by a women looking to meet a dealer in Dublin. 

“Hey, let’s share a blunt [slang for marijuana joint] and then to say thank you I’ll give you a blow**b. I’m into age play, I wanna play your little sister’s friend that wants to try weed.”

While a Dublin couple have also placed an ad looking for “Fun with couple into smoke and Charlie”.

Charlie is a well-known slang term for cocaine.

It reads: “Any horny couple like to meet like-minded for some fun now...Lines and fun!”

‘Sex-for-drugs’ ads have become a major focus for police attention in the U.S. following a campaign by anti-prostitution campaigners.

In 2014, Dr Joshua Baron was sentenced to 70 months in a high-profile sex-for-drugs case in Chicago. 

He posted dozens of ads on Craigslist offering prescription drugs like Adderall and Xanax in exchange for sexual favours.

“Need Addreall or Xanax? Let me know what you are willing to do in exchange… please send a pic,” he posted.

Prosecutors said 16 vulnerable victims fell prey to Joshua Baron’s scheme between 2006 and 2011.

“Mr Baron was purchasing sexual favours for the drugs he knew people were addicted to and would do anything for,” said the judge, who ordered him to remain on supervised release for a decade after prison.

Baron, using the alias “Robert Crumb”, posted nearly 80 ads over those five years seeking to trade numerous kinds of powerful painkillers and other medication for sex, prosecutors said.

A pediatric neurologist, he treated patients at Rush University Medical Center, Stroger Hospital and St Anthony’s Hospital – all in Chicago – until his arrest in 2011 after he was caught in an undercover sting by Wilmette police attempting to trade drugs for sex. His licence was revoked that same year.

An investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Chicago police led to the broader federal charges against him.