Man who disrupted dissident murder investigation should not be jailed, defence say

Ray Kennedy, aged 41, from Blanchardstown in Dublin, was convicted by the Special Criminal Court of perverting the course of justice following his destruction of a mobile phone SIM card on 6 March 2013. The card was considered evidentially significant to the Garda investigation into the murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly at Gormanston in County Meath. Kennedy had arranged to meet Butterly the day before…