Crime World's week moves from Spanish raids to Waterford voices
Ten uploads include Nicola Tallant and Niall Donald's investigation discussion and a conversation with TikTok couple Kris and Star Stokes.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
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- 0:30Darren Hoolahan disappeared in June after arranging a meeting; his partner soon reported him missing.
- 2:07Spanish police's Operation Bernabé led to five arrests in the investigation.
- 6:14Police raid footage shows seized firearms, cash, packages of drugs and vehicles.
- 7:15The hosts reconstruct the movements and vehicle transfers described in the police account.
- 9:27The court update covers four remands in custody and an extradition request concerning a fifth suspect.
Kris and Star Stokes bring a community perspective to Crime World's latest run of reporting. Speaking with Niall Donald, the TikTok couple discuss drugs, crime and racism, and say their Traveller community should not be judged by the actions of a few.
Their conversation follows the deaths of neighbours in the Waterford arson attack. It is the channel's busiest individual upload for daily views at present, giving a different emphasis to a week whose most-watched new episode concerns the disappearance of Darren Hoolahan in Spain.
That episode, with around 26,000 views, brings Nicola Tallant and Donald together to examine Spanish police's account of the investigation. As we reported here, it includes raid footage showing seized firearms, cash and packages of drugs. The pair also work through the police timeline and the court appearances following five arrests. The investigation concerns a suspected murder; the episode's account is not a finding of guilt against those arrested.
Across ten uploads, the channel also revisited Mary Gough's murder and covered the decision overturning Imre Arakas's decades-old anti-Soviet convictions. Jenny Friel joined Tallant for the first part of a Russell Brand discussion, another of the uploads drawing the most attention now.
Crime World's daily views are running at nearly twice their usual level, although its subscriber total was unchanged over the week. Among nearby-sized true-crime channels, Criminally Obsessed also had a busier-than-usual viewing day, while Vinnie Politan was quieter. For Crime World, the newest momentum belongs to Kris and Star's account of the effects of crime on their community.
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- Channel
- Crime World
- Subscribers
- 103,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 293,831
- Videos published this week
- 10
- Video published
- November 10, 2026
- Video views so far
- 26,374
- Views on its first day
- 18,504
The numbers
Here is Crime World's week in views, subscribers and uploads.


