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'Whitey' Bulger's former protégé offers grisly testimony at mobster's trial

Kevin Weeks – who rose through the ranks of Bulger’s organisation – has detailed three killings he says the crime boss carried out personally in the 1980s.

A FORMER CLOSE associate of alleged mob kingpin James “Whitey” Bulger has offered gruesome details of three killings he says he watched the Irish-American criminal commit.

Kevin Weeks described the killings in court in Boston during his second day of testimony in Bulger’s trial for his alleged role in 19 murders in the 1970s and 1980s.

The 57-year-old – a key witness in the proceedings – told the jury that he had led authorities to the graves of the three victims after he began co-operating with authorites in 2000.

Describing the 1985 killing of Deborah Hussey – the daughter of another gang-member’s longtime girlfriend – Weeks said he didn’t think anything was going to happen to her as she “wasn’t a criminal”.

Weeks said he was at a South Boston house with Bulger when he heard a thud. He claimed the then saw Bulger choking the 26-year-old, and then strangling her with a rope.

According to the Boston Globe, Weeks also detailed the killing of Arthur “Bucky” Barrett, a safecracker and thief who Bulger allegedly shot in the head in 1983. A year later, according to Weeks, Bulger murdered a suspected informant by the same method, after a failed attempt to strangle him.

All three bodies were buried in the same basement, Weeks said, but they later had to be moved as the house was being sold.

File photo of Kevin Weeks (Image: Stephan Savoia/AP/Press Association Images)

Weeks – who first developed connections with Bulger in the 1970s – has already served a five year sentence after pleading guilty to racketeering and aiding five murders, following an agreeement that he would testify against his former boss.

Weeks said he first developed a friendship with Bulger in the 1970s while he was working as a bouncer at Triple O’s, a South Boston bar where Bulger did business as the leader of the Winter Hill Gang.

Soon, he said, he was working as an enforcer, driving around the city and picking up cash from local bookmakers the gang were extorting.

In court yesterday, he testified that he had also seen the mob boss open fire on a car and kill two men in 1982.

The high-profile trial opened last month, with prosecutors describing Bulger as a murderous drug dealer and extortionist who “did all the dirty work himself.”

The defence meanwhile denied claims that Bulger - who was arrested in June 2011 after 16 years on the run – was an FBI informant. The 83-year-old is accused of 19 murders, extortion, money laundering and arms trafficking.

Bulger became the inspiration for Jack Nicholson’s character in ‘The Departed’, the 2006 crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon.

(Additional reporting by AFP)

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    Mute Mongo
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    Jul 9th 2013, 8:52 PM

    Kevin ‘Two’ Weeks…Thats how long after he was arrested he turned into a Rat thus earning the nickname

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    Jul 10th 2013, 12:10 AM

    MATT DAMON

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    Jul 9th 2013, 9:46 PM

    Weeks you RAT !!!

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    Jul 9th 2013, 10:52 PM

    The only reason bugler got away with what he did is because he was a federal rat and was kept ahead of the state police the FBI are as much to blame

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    Jul 9th 2013, 11:05 PM

    Spot on. I read Weeks’ book a couple of months ago. Worth reading!

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    Mute Mongo
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    Jul 9th 2013, 11:29 PM

    Have a read of Eddie Mackenzies and John ‘red’ sheas books too,I havent got around to ‘Hitman’ about Johnny martorona yet

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    Mute Mick
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    Jul 9th 2013, 9:16 PM

    Whitey was a very bold boy.

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    Jul 9th 2013, 7:56 PM

    Three Sinn Féin related stories already.

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    Jul 9th 2013, 8:05 PM

    Ah would you look, Good old Patrick Lyons

    Patrick in 2012 you asked “Is The Journal obsessed with SF?”

    http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/profile/29795/is-the-journal-obsessed-sf-742586/

    My question to you is… Are you obsessed with SF?

    You really cant handle how everything is panning out can you?

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    Jul 9th 2013, 8:07 PM

    Yes and no.

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    Jul 9th 2013, 8:42 PM

    I like cake

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    Jul 9th 2013, 11:36 PM

    Ah yes Cake … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOLYYYsFqcI more important than a bitter twisted troll:)

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    Jul 9th 2013, 11:48 PM

    Hahahaha love it!!!

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    Jul 9th 2013, 11:54 PM

    Haha Trevor Mac……

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    Jul 9th 2013, 10:01 PM

    He looks great for 83!

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    Jul 10th 2013, 3:55 AM

    He sure does, but even at 83, I’d prefer to share a cell with anyone else.

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    Jul 11th 2013, 8:09 AM

    It says he’s 53.

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    Jul 9th 2013, 9:27 PM

    Poor auld Whitey

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    Jul 10th 2013, 12:48 AM

    Pat Nee is the man

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