Murdered Traveller's niece gives evidence

The niece of a man shot in the back at a family funeral has said she was "in fear of her life" when gunmen opened fire outside a Sligo cemetery, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The niece of a man shot in the back at a family funeral has said she was "in fear of her life" when gunmen opened fire outside a Sligo cemetery, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Mrs Shirley Ward (aged 24) told the jury she was "terrified" when she saw six men with guns as she sat in the passenger seat of her husband's Toyota hi-ace.

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