Editor found guilty of contempt and fined €4,500 over Ana Kriegel headline; publisher fined €25,000

A newspaper editor has been fined €4,500 after being found guilty of contempt of court for a front-page headline and article that "posed a real risk" to the trial of two boys convicted of murdering 14-year-old Anastasia Kriegel.

Sebastian Hamilton, editor of the Irish Daily Mail, must pay the fine within six weeks or face three months in prison. The paper's publisher, Associated News (Ireland) Ltd., was fined €25,000.