Killers driven from scene of crime, court told

TWO brothers who killed a man in Killarney in April 2007 were driven away from the scene by another man to their uncle’s house near Newmarket, Co Cork, the Circuit Criminal Court heard in Tralee, yesterday.

Three people face eight charges of helping the brothers to evade arrest, on the occasion.

Gerard and Shane O’Riordan, now aged 29 and 30, respectively, each received 14-year sentences at the Central Criminal Court, in July 2009, for the manslaughter of James Brazier, aged 30, at a house in Pinewood Estate, Killarney.