Poker dealer guilty of demanding money from 'hitman target'

A Clare woman has been found guilty of soliciting a former Las Vegas poker dealer to kill her partner and his two sons while her co-accused Egyptian Essam Eid (aged 52) has been found guilty of demanding €100,000 with menaces from the intended victim.

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 P.J, Robert and Niall Howard between August 1 and September 26 2006.