Thread by @nwl88444048

Introducing the McCormick family organised crime group which operates Escort Ireland, a website whose sole purpose is to encourage the breach of Part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, which outlawed the purchase of sex. Who’s who and how much?

First up, we have Peter McCormick, born 1959, the ex-RUC reservist from N Ireland who has at least one conviction for pimping in 2003

His son is Mark McCormick, born 1983, who has at least one conviction for pimping in 2010

Audrey Rita Campbell, born 1973 and described in Main Media as “the partner” of Peter McCormick. Social media has described her background in more explicit terms. She was the original website registrant & business name registrant of Uglymugs in Ireland

Lee Graham Campbell, born 1993, the son of Audrey Rita Campbell, and the main contact on company documents for the Spain-based company described below.

Escort Ireland, the website was originally operated by London-based E Designers Limited, but they relocated to Spain and a company Lazarus Trading Sociedad Limitada. That has been renamed Periodic Table Sociedad Limitada. Below are its latest outline results for 2021

Sales are shown as €5.573m but it’s unclear what that is, exactly, without knowing the specific accounting policy used [eg it may be the *net* income from running a particular website]. Profit or Earnings Before Interest Tax Depreciation Amortization was €2.806m.

We don’t know how much of the €5.6m “sales” is paid out in salaries etc to the McCormicks and their associates before getting down to profit or EBITDA.

In Ireland, the website reportedly charges prostitutes or their “handlers” €160 a week and up, and it appears to advertise ~1000 prostitutes, suggesting it has sales in the €10m ballpark.

So, it’s a significant operation involving people with pimping convictions, and as far as Irish – N Ireland and the Republic – law is concerned, its sole purpose is to encourage the breach of our laws.

As a footnote, the McCormicks have been busy, trying to get Google to wipe search results about their past in Europe under the “right to be forgotten”. Contrast the search results below left, for a search conducted from the USA, and right, from the "right to be forgotten" EU!