Conviction Overturned in Slaying of Reporter
From Times Wire Reports
Ireland’s appeals court quashed the conviction of a Dublin man imprisoned for life for the 1996 murder of Veronica Guerin, an investigative reporter whose gangland killing stunned the nation.
Paul Ward, 37, who was imprisoned in 1998 on the evidence of his state-protected accomplice, Charles Bowden, had appealed on the grounds that Bowden, described in court as “an inveterate liar,” was an unreliable witness.
Guerin, 36, was shot by a passenger on a motorbike as she waited in her car at a traffic light in Dublin.
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