Financial advisor behind plan to rob businessman who was 'barbarically' beaten is jailed

A former financial advisor has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment at the Special Criminal Court following his conviction for orchestrating a robbery targeting a Mayo businessman. William Twomey, aged fifty-eight, was found guilty of assault causing harm, robbery, and demanding money with menaces in connection with a December 2017 attack on Edward McAndrew at Omeath, County Louth. The victim was lured to the…