Cork Shooting: 11 years in jail for man who revealed he was informer

An 11-year sentence was imposed yesterday on a garda informer who shot a woman in the neck through the window of a house as it emerged that CCTV at the accused man’s own home was the key evidence convicting him.

The shooter, Gavin Sheehan, chose his sentencing hearing yesterday as the moment to reveal that he was — for a period of two years — a garda informer tipping them off about drug dealers, gun dealers and criminals in general.

Sheehan, aged 30, was sentenced by Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.