Brian Meehan's brother jailed for six years

A brother of Brian Meehan, the man serving life imprisonment for the murder of Veronica Guerin, has been jailed for six years for committing a series of robberies armed with knives after relapsing into heroin addiction.

Bradford Meehan’s sentence was backdated to start from May 2003 when a previous 10-year term was reactivated because he committed the new crimes after he was released from it.