28 years for drug dealer cleared of Guerin murder

John Gilligan was today cleared at Dublin’s Special Criminal Court of ordering the murder of investigative journalist Veronica Guerin but jailed for 28 years for drug offences.

Judge Diarmuid O’Donovan told the non-jury court that although there were 'grave suspicions' of Gilligan’s complicity in the murder, the prosecution had not proved the charge 'beyond all reasonable doubts'.