Accused 'panicked' after arranging to meet dissident at murder scene, defence say

A man accused of perverting the course of justice in connection with a dissident republican murder in County Meath has been remanded on bail pending judgment at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin. Ray Kennedy is charged with deliberately destroying a mobile telephone SIM card on the day Peter Butterly was fatally shot in a car park at Gormanston on 6 March 2013. The prosecution has contended that the SIM card…