Witness jailed for 'conspiracy'

David McIlwaine and Andrew Robb were killed in February 2000

A man accused of involvement in an attack on one of two teenagers murdered near Tandragee has been sentenced to two years and six months in prison.

Mark Burcombe, 27, from Ballynahinch Road, Lisburn had originally been charged with the murders of Andrew Robb, 19, and David McIlwaine, 18.

However, he decided to give evidence for the prosecution against a co-accused.

He pleaded guilty to conspiring to cause grievous bodily harm.

Andrew Robb's mother Ann, giving her reaction to Burcombe's sentence, said: "I'm disgusted, sick to the backbone, that this can be allowed to happen in a supposedly civilised country.

"There's no justice anywhere."