LATEST: Man sentenced for Trevor Spiers killing

COLERAINE man Francis Paul McCormick has today (Friday) been sentenced to four years and ten months in prison for the unlawful killing of Portstewart man Trevor Spiers outside a Portstewart nightclub.

Sentenced along with McCormick was his 22-year-old nephew Paul McCormick from Edenmore Way, Ballymoney, who admitted assaulting Mr Spiers’ friend Michael Black and unlawfully fighting and causing an affray. Also sentenced for the affray were 23-year-old Luke McArthur from Portstewart Road, Coleraine, and 25-year-old Robert Peter Henderson, of Greenhall Manor, also Coleraine. Henderson also admitted assisting an offender by disposing of a necklace. However, they were freed when their jail terms ranging from 12 to 18 months were all suspended for three years.

For full story see Tuesday’s Coleraine Times

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