Clare woman guilty of soliciting hitman to kill partner

A Clare woman has been found guilty of soliciting a former Las Vegas poker dealer to kill her partner and his two sons by a jury at the Central Criminal Court.

The jury of eight men and four women took almost eight hours to find Sharon Collins (aged 45), with an address at Ballybeg House, Kildysart Road, Ennis guilty of conspiring to kill PJ, Robert and Niall Howard between August 1 and September 26 2006.