Veronica Guerin

Veronica Guerin (5 July 1959 - 26 June 1996) was an Irish journalist who was born in Dublin.

Death
On June 26, 1996, Guerin was shot to death by Irish drug dealers. Her assassination made many Irish people angry, which brought down many drug dealers on the island. The criminal John Gilligan was later convicted of her murder and sentenced to 28 years in prison, though Gilligan said in High Court that it was his friend John Traynor who murdered Guerin.

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Category:Irish journalists
Category:People murdered in Europe
Category:Murders by firearm
Category:Writers from Dublin
Category:1958 births
Category:1996 deaths
Category:CPJ International Press Freedom Award winners