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ENNIS woman Sharon Collins has spent the weekend in jail after being convicted of soliciting a poker dealer to murder her partner PJ Howard and his sons, Robert and Niall.
The mother-of-two, of Ballybeg House, Kildysart Road, Ennis, was
also found guilty of conspiracy to murder the three Howards, at the end of an eight-week trial at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin.
She was remanded in custody to the Laurel House unit of Mountjoy women’s prison where she is one of ten inmates, including Tanya Lamb (30), who is serving a 10-year term
for killing her partner with a hockey stick.
Her co-accused, Essam Eid (52), a native of Egypt, was found guilty of extortion and handling stolen prop- erty and acquitted of burglary at the Howards’ family business in Ennis.
However, the jury could not decide on conspiracy to murder charges
against him and recorded a verdict of disagreement.
Collins denied setting up the email address lyingeyes98@yahoo.ie and hiring a hitman over the internet in 2006. She claimed that she had been the victim of a set up.