Provisional IRA extortion re-trial begins
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The first attempt earlier this year ended when the jury failed to agree verdicts. The re-trial, apparently of only two of the three original defendants, Nick Mullen, 60, from Acton, west London, and Máirtín’s “mate” Ronald McCartney, 55, from Belfast, whose early release licence was revoked by Shaun Woodward in May 2008, has now gotten underway. The alleged...