Gilligan gets two years over threat to kill

CONVICTED crime boss John Gilligan could be due for release from prison in seven years’ time after he was given a two-year prison sentence yesterday for threatening to kill two prison officers in a tuck shop row in 2001.

The Court of Criminal Appeal, which last month quashed an earlier five-year sentence on Gilligan for the offences, yesterday imposed a two-year sentence to run consecutively with the 20 years sentence Gilliganis serving for drugs offences.

The new sentence means that Gilligan could be due for release from prison in 2013.