2024-06-14
Violent criminal guilty of conspiring to pervert course of justice during garda killer's trial
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; Byrne is already serving an 18–year sentence with four suspended for a burglary in 2013 in which he and six others broke into a family home and terrorised the parents and their three daughters, aged eight, six and two.; Mr Justice Paul Burns, presiding, adjourned the sentencing hearing to July 15.