Brian Collopy (left) and Kieran Collopy at Limerick District Court, where they were both sentenced to eight years in jail
The trial heard that the victim was “in the wrong place at the wrong time” when he was shot on December 8, 2009.
After the verdict was read out Maria left the courtroom with her daughters shouting: “Love you, Kenneth, love you no matter what.”
In 2015, her husband and his brother were under surveillance when they met with Paddy Mitchell – brother of George ‘the Penguin’ Mitchell – in a fast food outlet.
They were overheard discussing a heroin deal.
In December of that year, a drug squad stormed two adjoining houses in St Mary’s Park in Limerick.