McKevitt’s appeal against 20-year jail term dismissed
Michael McKevitt had appealed the conviction and 20-year prison sentence he received five years ago on more than 30 grounds including several challenging the credibility of the state’s key witness FBI agent David Rupert, a New Yorker who infiltrated the Real IRA.
Yesterday the five-judge court, comprising chief Justice John Murray, Ms Justice Susan Denham, Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman, and Mr Justice Nial Fennelly unanimously agreed with Mr Justice Hugh Geoghegan’s judgment that McKevitt’s conviction was safe and the appeal should be struck out.
