A "trusted" IRA member who bought the car used in the murder of David Black has been jailed for five years.
Vincent Banks (49), of Smithfield Gate Apartments in Dublin, was found guilty in July at the Republic's Special Criminal Court of membership of an illegal organisation.
Mr Black, a 52-year-old father-of-two, was shot dead in November 2012 after being ambushed as he drove to work at Maghaberry Prison.
At a previous trial, in 2014, Banks was cleared of withholding information related to the murder.
The court heard that after the killing, the PSNI established a forensic link between the shooting and a Toyota Camry, which was found further along the motorway, burnt out in a ditch.
Gardaí learned that Banks had bought the car from a man in Tallaght. He had earlier bought a SIM card used solely to call the vendor of the car and later, when he signed the car's log-book, Banks used his left hand and signed the name Paul McCann, with an address on Rathgar Road in Dublin.
Gardaí spoke to the landlord of the premises who confirmed that no-one of that name lived there. However he showed them a letter addressed to the name, which contained the car registration certificate for the Camry.
Banks's right thumb print was found on the document.
The Camry had ended up in Carrigallen, a village near the border in Co Leitrim. In November Banks was seen driving a friend's car from Carrigallen to Dublin.
Gardaí searched the friend's house and Banks' apartment in Smithfield.
In the friend's car officers found Banks' jacket and an ordnance survey map with the page displaying Co Leitrim torn out and his fingerprints.
In Banks's apartment gardaí found a copy of the Evening Herald open on a story about the murder of Mr Black.
Sentencing him yesterday, Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy, presiding at the three-judge court, said Banks was a "trusted member of an unlawful organisation, in the position to seek out and obtain in a surreptitious manner the vehicle used in the murder of Mr Black".
A mitigating factor was his lack of relevant previous convictions, the court heard.
Banks was jailed for five years.
