Ex-corporal jailed for attempt to sway juror

A former army coporal who tried to "attack one of the fundamental pillars of the Irish justice system" by trying to influence a jury deliberating in a criminal trial, has been jailed for four years.

James Walsh (aged 45), of Mountainview Drive, Rathfarnham, was convicted by a jury last Thursday of trying to influence a juror in the trial of the Director of Public Prosecutions v Black and Fitzgerald heard from May 25, 2003 to June 4, 2003 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.