Witness Protection
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Initial release | December 11, 1999 |
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Directors | Richard Pearce |
Production company | HBO Films |
Initial DVD release | June 13, 2000 |
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ID | 2264828 |
About Witness Protection
A mobster and his family enter the Witness Protection Programme after they give evidence for the state to avoid a lengthy prison sentence.
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... I look like someone in a Witness Protection programme or a drill artist who s very worried about the police catching up with him...
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... She sang twice during the ceremony, for suffragette musical Sylvia - which won her an Olivier - and also for Sister Act, about a singer who goes into Witness Protection by pretending to be a nun...
Tom Sizemore: Saving Private Ryan actor dies at 61 after brain aneurysm
... Sizemore was nominated for a Golden Globe for playing a mobster in the 1999 TV movie Witness Protection, and provided the voice of mafia boss Sonny Forelli in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City in 2002...
Tom Sizemore: No further hope for actor after brain aneurysm - manager
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Timeline of dissident republican activity
... Mr Dixon had never entered the Witness Protection Programme...
Jonathan Dowdall: Ex-Sinn Féin councillor jailed for facilitating murder
... Jonathan Dowdall has agreed to take part in the Irish Witness Protection programme in order to give evidence in the trial of Gerry Hutch...
'I fear bumping into my torturers in the street'
... Some of those who gave evidence against Raslan also faced threats, with one man being forced to enter a German state Witness Protection programme...
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... It suggests he could apply to the US Witness Protection scheme and be assigned a new identity...
Jonathan Dowdall: Ex-Sinn Féin councillor jailed for facilitating murder
By Shane HarrisonBBC Ireland Correspondent
A former Sinn Féin councillor has been jailed for Four Years after admitting to facilitating a murder
David Byrne, 33, was shot dead at The Regency Airport Hotel in Dublin during a boxing weigh-in in 2016.
Former councillor Jonathan Dowdall and his father Patrick Dowdall both pleaded guilty to facilitating Mr Byrne's murder.
Patrick Dowdall has been sentenced to two years in prison for his role in The Crime .
Jonathan Dowdall has agreed to take part in the Irish Witness Protection programme in order to give evidence in The Trial of Gerry Hutch .
The presiding judge Tony Hunt said during sentencing that Jonathan Dowdall was not A Man of previous good character but accepted that his life and that of His Family will be upended and become more dangerous because of his decision to give evidence in the Hutch trial.
A hearing of the three-judge non-jury court Two Weeks ago was told that and drove his son Jonathan there.
Jonathan paid for The Room in cash at The Hotel before handing The Key over to a member of an Organised Crime group.
The Room was used by Patrick Murray , a dissident republican who was part of the Hit Team The Following day and who has since died.
The Following month, Jonathan Dowdall met another man and travelled to Northern Ireland .
The Court heard his vehicle was under surveillance and the conversations between the two men were recorded.
Jonathan Dowdall had been due to go On Trial along with Gerry Hutch , who is due to stand trial on Tuesday for the murder of Mr Byrne.
In 2017, for falsely imprisoning A Man in 2015 after waterboarding and threatening to kill him,
They both pleaded guilty.
The Court of Appeal later reduced Jonathan Dowdall 's sentence to 10 Years in jail with The Final 25 months Suspended .
Patrick Dowdall's sentence was reduced to seven years in prison, with The Final three years Suspended .
Source of news: bbc.com