Philip Boucher Hayes
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He actually, by his own admission, had...
had cleaned, he'd loaded the gun, the Magnum .357 revolver that was used to murder Veronica.
He would later say he didn't know if she was going to be shot or shot at, but he did know that the gun was being used to target her.
He'd said he didn't know that she was going to be murdered.
But these are the men who and they served prison sentences for their admitted crimes of guns or money or drugs, offences.
But they also were able to give information so that this gang was broken up in so many ways.
And the information guarantee got from within it.
But that was the first case.
The Witness Protection Programme.
came as a result of the investigation into Veronica's murder.
It's been used in so many other big cases since, but that was the start of it.
And what about convictions for the actual murder?
Only one man stands convicted of the murder of Veronica Guerin.
That's Brian Meehan.
And we know from his conviction, Brian Meehan was the man who drove the motorbike that day.
So he drove the bike which followed Veronica's car on the Nace Road.
And she was stopped at traffic lights when the pillion passenger got off the bike.
The passenger got off.
He had this gun.
He fired six times into Veronica, into the car and killed Veronica Guerin immediately.