O’Flynn to serve three years for plot to kill

Former solicitor, financial adviser, and Fianna Fáil councillor Gary O’Flynn was yesterday jailed for three years for soliciting someone to murder a detective, a taxman, and an accountant because of a fraud inquiry against him.

An overall sentence of five years’ imprisonment, with the last two suspended, was imposed at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said soliciting someone to murder three people caused considerable hurt and suffering. Not alone was there the threat of murder, he said, but the accused was prepared to fund it to have the threat executed.