Veronica Guerin Page #7

Let go of my door, John.

Hello? Just a minute. Hello?

She'll be at the Naas Courthouse|tomorrow morning.

Come the f*** with me. Go on.

1 00 fine.

Thank you.

Well done.

She's out.

Mum, I'm driving!|Can you believe it? He let me off.

He actually let me off.|I love you. Talk to you.

Yeah. Another repeat offender|returned to decent society.

She's on her way.

I told him I was guilty as sin.

Veronica?

Veronica?

Veronica Guerin's writing|turned the tide in the drug war.

Her murder galvanised Ireland into action.

Thousands of people took to the streets|in weekly anti-drug marches,

which drove the dealers out of Dublin|and forced the drug barons underground.

Within a week of her death, during|an emergency session of Parliament,

the government altered the constitution|of the Republic of Ireland

to allow the high court to freeze|the assets of suspected drug barons.

That same year, the Criminal|Assets Bureau, CAB, was formed

and given the power to access and seize

unexplained wealth|from suspected criminals.

Charles Bowden turned state's evidence|and became the first person in Irish history

to be entered into|the witness protection programme.

Brian Meehan was sentenced|to life imprisonment

for the murder of Veronica Guerin,

and his assets were seized by the CAB.

Eugene Holland was sentenced|to 20 years in prison for drug trafficking.

His assets were seized by CAB.

John Traynor escaped to Portugal

and continues to fight extradition|to Ireland on charges of murder.

His assets were seized by the CAB.

After a long extradition battle,

John Gilligan was brought back to Ireland|from England

and sentenced to|28 years in prison for drug trafficking.

His assets were seized by CAB.

By the following year,|crime rates had dropped 15%.

Everyone in the Republic of Ireland|remembers where they were

when they heard that Veronica Guerin|had been murdered on the Naas Road.

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