PJ Judge
Irish criminal
Peter Joseph Judge (27 July 1955 – 8 December 1996) was an Irish crime boss and drug trafficker. Nicknamed "the Psycho", Judge controlled the trade of drugs in the Finglas, Cabra and Ballymun suburbs of Dublin before his murder in 1996.
Early life
The son of Peter and Eileen Judge, Judge was the youngest of five children. He grew up in Finglas, attending school in Marlborough Street before leaving at age 14 to work with his father, who ran a small pig feed business. He later worked as a delivery boy for a bread company and had a job making cots. Judge had a stammer as a child.
Criminal career
Judge was involved in crime from an early age, and his criminal activities started when he robbed a firearms dealer at age 13, for which he spent two years in St Conleth's Reformatory School in Daingean. Having spent his teenage years in and out of institutions, he began leading a burglary gang of other youths in the area.
He was charged with the robbery of over £1,000 from a savings bank in Fairview in August 1979; the van he used had been registered in the name of his associate William "Jock" Corbally. Under police questioning, Corbally told him he had loaned the van to Judge.
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