Brian Meehan fails to have Veronica Guerin murder conviction quashed

The Court of Appeal has dismissed as an “abuse of process” Brian Meehan’s bid to have his conviction for murdering journalist Veronica Guerin declared a miscarriage of justice.

Ms Guerin was murdered on the Naas Road, Dublin, on June 26, 1996 while stopped at traffic lights. A motorcycle pulled up beside her and the pillion passenger discharged shots into her car.

Meehan, 47, from Crumlin in Dublin, is serving a life sentence in Portlaoise prison for her murder having being convicted by the non-jury Special Criminal Court in July 1999 after a 31-day-trial. It was the prosecution’s case that he drove the motorcycle.