The man who possessed the gun that killed the journalist Lyra McKee has been jailed.
Lyra McKee, 29, was killed while observing rioting in the Creggan estate in Londonderry on April 18 2019. A New IRA gunman opened fire on police and a bullet struck and killed Ms McKee.
Mr Justice Fowler, the judge at Belfast Crown Court, deemed that Niall Sheerin was “an associate of a terrorist gang who posed a danger to the public". The gun was found wrapped with the spent ammunition magazine in plastic bags in a field in the Ballymagroarty area of Derry in 2020. Sheerin’s DNA was found on the gun.
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