2016-01-11
Police killer to await sentence fate over biggest drugs seizure in Irish history
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Not guilty
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; He was unanimously found guilty by a Cork Circuit Criminal Court jury and sentenced to 30 years imprisonment by Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin on July 23 2008. Two of Wharrie's accomplices, who also pleaded not guilty, were sentenced to 30 years and 25 years respectively for the same offence.