State fails to jail brother of Veronica Guerin killer

The State has failed in an attempt to review the nine-year suspended sentence handed down to a brother of Brian Meehan, the man serving life imprisonment for the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin.

Bradford Meehan (aged 38) walked free from court in October 2008 after sentences he received for a string of robberies, including three committed over the Christmas period in 2007, were suspended in their entirety.