'New IRA' leader should never have been convicted of dissident murder, lawyers argue
A man identified by gardaí as leader of the so-called New IRA is appealing his murder conviction at the Court of Appeal, with his legal team arguing the conviction was unsafe. Kevin Braney (49) was found guilty by the Special Criminal Court in February 2019 of the premeditated murder of Peter Butterly in March 2013 at the Huntsman Inn in Gormanston, County Meath. Braney's barrister submitted that the trial relied…
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