Joseph Richards sentenced to seven and a half years over conspiracy to murder Robert Sheridan

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Joseph Richards was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for conspiring to murder Robert Sheridan, who was shot at the front door of his Ballymun home in 2018. The final six months of Richards’s sentence were suspended for two years, on condition that he continue to work with probation services.

The judge said Richards was the shooter and had been deeply involved in the conspiracy. The sentence is to begin after Richards completes the six-year-and-five-month term he is already serving for unrelated offences.