'There are lonely nights at home without him': Colm Horkan's father reacts to Stephen Silver sentencing

Judge specified Silver must serve a minimum of 40 years in prison

After two trials at the Central Criminal Court, a jury found Stephen Silver guilty of capital murder last month. Picture Colin Keegan/ Collins 

The sister of Garda Colm Horkan, who was shot eleven times with his own service gun, has told her brother's murderer that there is "no forgiveness" for what he did and she wants him to remember that every evening "as the cell door locks behind you".

Stephen Silver, 46, was today jailed for life with a minimum time to be served of 40 years.