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(Pictured: Denis Casey. Credit: Collins)
The Court of Appeal has upheld the convictions of two former bank executives, jailed last year for a €7.2 billion conspiracy to defraud the public about the true health of Anglo Irish Bank in 2008.
The former head of capital markets with Anglo Irish Bank John Bowe (53), from Glasnevin in Dublin and the former chief executive of Irish Life and Permanent, Denis Casey (57), from Raheny in Dublin, had pleaded not guilty to a single count of conspiring to mislead investors by using interbank loans to make Anglo appear €7.2bn more valuable between March 1 and ….read more
An Irish man described by the FBI as the world’s ‘largest facilitator of child pornography’ is making a legal bid aimed at halting his extradition to the United States.
Eric Eoin Marques, who is alleged to be the owner and administrator of an anonymous hosting site known as Freedom Hosting, is wanted by the US authorities to face charges relating to conspiring to distribute and advertise child pornography and advertising and distributing child pornography.
The charges against Mr Marques relate to images on over a hundred “anonymous websites” described as being extremely violent, graphic and depicting the rape and torture of pre-pubescent ….read more
By Sarah-Jane Murphy
A man who robbed a convenience shop with an airgun and was in the process of burning the cash when gardai arrived to arrest him will be sentenced later.
Derek Cooling (29) and another man entered the More For Less store and pointed the air gun at a female employee standing behind the counter, shouting “Open the till or I’ll blow your head off.”
Cooling, of Old Church Crescent, Clondalkin, Dublin pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to robbery of the shop in Bawnogue Shopping Centre, Dublin 22 on July 18, 2016.
Garda Barry O’Shea told Diarmuid Collins BL, prosecuting, ….read more
(Pictured: Richard Dekker. Credit: Collins)
A man whose murder conviction earlier this year made legal history as the first recorded after an acquittal, has been granted an extension of time to bring an appeal.
Richard Dekker (30), from the Blanchardstown area of Dublin was unanimously found guilty by a jury at the Central Criminal Court last March of murdering 17-year-old Daniel McAnaspie in February 2010.
The decomposed body of Mr McAnaspie, who had been in the care of the HSE, was discovered by a farmer in a seven-foot ditch in Rathfeigh Co Meath, 30km from where he had been killed.
Dekker’s conviction came after ….read more
By Liz Farsaci
A mother who received €30,000 in compensation was warned by a judge that she will go to jail if she doesn’t pay €30 a week in child maintenance.
Dublin District Family Court heard that the women had received the money in relation to an assault she suffered.
Her former partner told Judge John Lindsay that the woman, with whom he has one daughter, owes him more than €2,300 in child maintenance.
But when Judge Lindsay asked her where this money was, the mother said: “It’s in my bank statement. [But] it’s not in my bank.”
She said she gave some of the ….read more
A High Court judge has expressed concerns about “foreign owned funds” citing fire safety issues when seeking to put people out of their homes immediately.
The remarks were made by Mr Justice Paul Gilligan at Friday’s sitting of the High Court.
The judge made his comments after an action brought by a fund, Targeted Investment Opportunities ICAV (TIO), against a young couple Mr Sean O’Nuanain and Ms Melanie Mook was briefly mentioned before the court.
The fund seeks various orders against the couple including an injunction preventing them from trespassing or occupying premises situated at 85-86 Barrack Street, Cork.
The couple ….read more
