Court dismisses appeal of man who hired garda to kill wife

The CCA has dismissed an application by a man who twice tried to have his estranged wife killed to have an appeal against the severity of his seven-year sentence determined by the Supreme Court.

Today the three-judge court ruled that Patrick Rafferty, who was jailed after being found guilty of hiring an undercover garda to hire his wife, had not raised an important point of law required to be determined by the Supreme Court.