Pair jailed for life over Sliabh Liag murder

A man and a woman have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a man in Co Donegal.

Robert “Robin” Wilkin (66) was thrown off the Sliabh Liag cliffs on June 25th, 2023.

Alan Vial (39), of Drumanoo Head in Killybegs, and Nikita Burns (24), from An Charraig in Co Donegal, were found guilty of the murder, and were sentenced at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin on Friday.

Detective Garda David Durkin told the court that Vial had several previous convictions for road traffic and “public order-type” offences while Burns had no previous convictions.

Mr Wilkin, originally from Omagh in Co Tyrone, had two sisters and a brother.

Victim Robert Wilkin’s sister, Irene McAleer, and brother, David, leaving the Central Criminal Court in Dublin this afternoon. Photo: Collins

One sister, Irene McAleer, said Mr Wilkin was the eldest of the siblings and they “looked up to him” during their childhood.

She described the murderers as “two cold, calculating individuals”…

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