A Clare woman has been found guilty of soliciting a former Las Vegas poker dealer to kill her partner and his two sons while her co-accused Egyptian Essam Eid (aged 52) has been found guilty of demanding €100,000 with menaces from the intended victim.

A man whose partner is accused of conspiring with a Las Vegas poker dealer to organise his assassination and those of his two sons, has told a jury in the Central Criminal Court he decided not get married a second time after his solicitor told him prenuptial agreements had no legal standing in Ireland.