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Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said: 'The threat to shoot me 'for free' was the threat of a coward, designed to intimidate me and to encourage others to target me'

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald: 'I was afraid and angry. My family were enraged and afraid.' File picture: Brian Lawless/PA

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said she was afraid after a “threat of a coward” to shoot her, but would not allow any “bully” to prevent her doing her job.

Ms McDonald made the comments in a victim impact statement read to the court during the sentence hearing of Richard McGreevy (aged 29).