McKevitt appeals sentence for directing terrorist activities

THE first person in the State to be convicted of directing terrorist activities yesterday began a Supreme Court appeal against his conviction and 20-year jail sentence.

Michael McKevitt, aged 54, claims he did not get a fair trial because his legal team had not been supplied with all information in relation to a key witness, FBI agent David Rupert.

The trial had failed to have an appropriate system of disclosure of documents which were crucial to his case, his lawyer argued in the Supreme Court yesterday.