Declan Brady has been further sentenced to a nine-year prison term
One-time senior Kinahan cartel member Declan 'Mr Nobody' Brady has been further sentenced to a nine-year prison term for facilitating the "depraved" murder of Christopher Kirwan, an innocent man who was shot dead after he was pictured attending the funeral of a Hutch family member, despite having no connection to either side in the notorious gangland feud.
READ MORE: Man, 18, charged over Phoenix Park incident claims: 'This isn't some sort of an attack on gay community'In previous cases, the non-jury court heard that most of the local community had attended the funeral and if Mr Kirwan had "taken two steps forward", he would not have appeared in the photograph.
Mr Justice Hunt said the plan to murder Mr Kirwan was "flexible and capable of responding to changing circumstances" - with the gang having initially attached the tracker to a car Mr Kirwan traded-in before they switched it to the newer vehicle. Mr Justice Hunt said the murder of Mr Kirwan was "just another appalling facet of the Kinahan organised crime group". Mr Justice Hunt fixed 13 years' imprisonment as a pre-mitigation headline sentence before discounting three years for Brady's guilty plea. Mr Justice Hunt noted that Brady had previous convictions for firearms and money-laundering offences relating to the Kinahans.
Brady was charged that between October 20, 2016 and December 22, 2016, within the State and with knowledge of the existence of a criminal organisation did participate in, or contribute by activity, or by being reckless as to whether such participation or contribution could facilitate the commission by a criminal organisation or any of its members of a serious offence, to wit: the murder of Christopher Kirwan, contrary to Section 72 of the Criminal justice Act.
Today's sentence will run concurrent to these terms and was backdated to April 30 last. Mr Kirwan was shot six times as he sat in his car on December 22, 2016 at St Ronan's Drive, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. Last month, a "trustworthy" gym-owner who helped the cartel by buying phone credit for a leading member of the gang was jailed for two years.
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