Bernadette Sands McKevitt, wife of alleged dissident republican [Michael] McKevitt and sister of lat.....
Bernadette Sands McKevitt, wife of alleged dissident republican [Michael] McKevitt and sister of late republican hunger striker [Bobby] Sands, arrives at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, June 18, 2003. McKevitt, alleged to be the leader of the Real IRA, is the first person to appear at Dublin's Special Criminal Court charged with directing terrorism, one of a range of measures introduced by the Irish Government in the wake of the Omagh bombing in 1998. The 53-year-old faces a possible life sentence if he is eventually found guilty.