A man has been jailed for three years by Judge Patrick McCartan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for interfering with the principle prosecution witness in an attempted murder trial.

A man has been convicted of interfering with the principle prosecution witness in an attempted murder trial to try to persuade him not to give evidence at the trial of the man who had shot him in the head.

The trial of a man accused of intimidating a victim of attempted murder and trying to persuade him not to give evidence at the trial of his attacker has opened at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.