Newspaper fined €75k over pre-trial coverage of serial killer's case

The Sunday World has been fined €75,000 for contempt of court following pre-trial coverage of a serial killer's case. Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy imposed the penalty at the Central Criminal Court on 15 February 2016 after the newspaper published articles describing the accused as a "psycho" and "Pulp Fiction-style killer" before his trial for a double murder in Grangegorman, Dublin. The articles, which appeared in…