Eight years for criminal who threatened garda
A convicted criminal who is serving a six years prison sentence for threatening the life of a member of a rival group who was later shot dead in a gangland killing, has been sentenced to eight years for threatening a garda.
Michael Neeson (aged 34), of Coultry Drive, Ballymun pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to threatening to cause serious harm to Sergeant Cormac Brennan on September 28, 2005, intending him to believe the threat would be carried out.
