A 32-year-old man who shot Lisburn man Paul Smyth in the chest with a sawn-off shotgun has been told he will spend the next 18 years in jail for murder.
"Vulnerable" Lisburn man Paul Smyth was shot in the chest at close range with a sawn-off shotgun in a killing which bore "all the hallmarks of an execution", a court has heard.
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