The man injured during the attack that killed Belfast man Robert McCartney has been jailed for seven years for his part in a robbery.
Brendan Devine (31), who was left for dead outside Magennis's Bar in January, was sentenced with two other men in Belfast Crown Court by Judge Derick Rodgers today.
Judge Rodgers told the three that as robbers they were "playing for high stakes and must accept appropriate sentence when they are caught".
Although Devine, from Mayfield Village, Glengormley; William Francis Evans (24) from Albert Street, and John O’Connor (33), from Torrens Avenue, both Belfast, were each jailed for seven years, two years of their sentences will be served on probation.
They were involved the robbery of cash in transit at a post office in south Belfast.
Devine had his throat cut and received a large stab wounds in the stomach in the row with members of IRA in the city centre bar. The row left Mr McCartney dead and had far-reaching implications for the North's peace process.
