Man jailed for perverting investigation into dissident murder says he was unlawfully detained

Raymond Kennedy has appealed his conviction for perverting the course of justice in relation to the 2013 murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly. Kennedy was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court in July 2021 after being found guilty of destroying a mobile phone SIM card on the day Butterly was shot dead in a car park at Gormanston, County Meath. Kennedy had arranged to meet…