The Court of Criminal Appeal today rejected an appeal by Brian Meehan against his conviction for the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin 10 years ago.
Brian Meehan arriving at court in Dublin lsat month for his appeal against his conviction for the murder of Veronica Guerin in June 1996
Meehan (41), from Crumlin in Dublin, is the only person serving a sentence for Guerin's murder on June 26th 1996.
He was jailed for life by the Special Criminal Court in July 1999 and was also given concurrent jail sentences of 20, 12, 10 and five years for drugs and firearms offences. Meehan appealed against all those convictions.
The three-judge Court of Criminal Appeal reserved its judgment after a two-day hearing last month of Meehan's appeal.
The Special Criminal Court found after a 31-day trial that Meehan was the driver of the motorcycle from which a gunman fired six shots at Guerin as she sat in her car at traffic lights on the Naas Road.
Meehan's senior counsel, Patrick Gageby, argued during the appeal that the trial court should not have accepted evidence of telephone traffic between Meehan's mobile phone and the mobile phone of Russell Warren as corroboration of Warren's evidence.
Warren, who is in the witness protection programme, told the trial that he followed Guerin from Naas to Clondalkin, was in contact by mobile phone with Meehan and saw Meehan's pillion passenger shoot Guerin.