Charles McClean sentenced to three-and-a-half years for impeding prosecution of Mark Desmond’s killer

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Charles McClean received a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for impeding the apprehension or prosecution of the person who murdered Mark Desmond. He had pleaded guilty to the offence, which took place at Griffeen Valley Park, Lucan, on December 2nd, 2016.

The sentence was consecutive to McClean’s existing terms of eight-and-a-half years for facilitating the murder of Thomas McCarthy and eight years for conspiring to murder Wayne Whelan. McCarthy was shot dead in Ballyfermot in July 2020.