Brian Meehan loses appeal over Veronica Guerin murder conviction

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Brian Meehan's application to overturn his murder conviction was dismissed by the Court of Appeal on 18 April 2016. The conviction concerns the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin on Dublin's Naas Road in June 1996.

Meehan, from Crumlin, is serving a life sentence in Portlaoise prison after being convicted by the Special Criminal Court in July 1999. The Court of Appeal found that the material on which he relied had been disclosed and was available by the time of the 2001 trial of John Gilligan, whose separate murder trial ended in acquittal.

The court concluded that Meehan's attempt to revive arguments previously available to him amounted to an abuse of process. Mr Justice George Birmingham said no new or newly discovered fact had been established.