Court imposes total of 31 years on four for gangland offences
Four men today received sentences totalling 31-and-a-half years for offences including violent disorder and demanding money with menaces, in the largest tranche of Limerick gangland cases to come before the Special Criminal Court in Dublin.
Christopher McCarthy (aged 28), Gareth Collins Keogh (aged 28) and his father Jimmy Collins (aged 48) were each jailed for seven-and-a-half years for their part in a two-year “campaign” to extract as much as €80,000 from nightclub promoter Mark Heffernan Jr, who has since been placed under 24-hour garda protection.
