Two men who facilitated a criminal organisation in the unexplained fatal shooting of a man who had no links to crime have received combined jail sentences totalling 16-and-a-half years at the Central Criminal Court.
One of the two men, Charles McClean, will begin his eight-and-a-half year sentence after he has served an eight-year sentence from a previous conviction for conspiring to murder gangland figure Wayne Whelan.
The court had heard during this month's sentencing hearing that the victim and father of five Thomas McCarthy, who was shot dead at his mother’s home in Dublin more than two years ago, had been due to return to his home in England just hours later, was not known to have any involvement in criminality and that there was “no explanation” for what had happened. Mr McCarthy had suffered nine separate gunshot injuries.
