From: BBC
A man originally accused of involvement in a mortar bomb plot has been fined for assisting in what he believed was cigarette smuggling.
Gary McDaid, 37, of Glenowen Park in Londonderry, was originally charged with conspiracy to cause an explosion and having explosives in 2013.
He had been on a motorbike travelling behind a van, that was discovered to contain four mortar bombs.
However, he later admitted a charge of helping to smuggle cigarettes.
He has been ordered to pay £300.
He was arrested alongside his co-accused, Seamus McLaughlin, of Eastway Gardens, on 3 March 2013 on Letterkenny Road in Derry.
The court accepted that McDaid believed his co-accused was moving cigarettes “as opposed to anything more sinister”.
