Murder-plot solicitor 'warning to profession'

The jailing of a solicitor caught plotting murder when police bugged his conversations with suspected terrorist clients will provide a salutary reminder to the whole profession about the standards required of them, a court heard today.

Manmohan ’Johnny’ Sandhu, 44, from Derry, has pleaded guilty at Belfast Crown Court to inciting loyalist paramilitaries to murder and four charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice.