Hospitalised Anglo juror cannot finish deliberations
Jurors have been deliberating for more than 28 hours over the course of six days days in the trial of four former bankers alleged to have conspired to mislead investors about the true financial health of Anglo Irish Bank.
They will return today to begin a seventh day considering a verdict.
Yesterday, on day 82 of the trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, Judge Martin Nolan was handed a note by the jury foreman stating a female member of the jury is in hospital and will not be available for at least a week.
Judge Nolan said he was happy to allow jurors continue deliberating with 11 people. The foreman told the judge they were “making progress”.
Anglo’s former head of capital markets John Bowe, 52, and the bank’s then finance director Willie McAteer, 65, along with former chief executive of ILP Group Denis Casey, 56, and ILP’s former finance director Peter Fitzpatrick, 63, have been on trial since January last.
They have all pleaded not guilty to conspiring together and with others to mislead investors by setting up a €7.2bn circular transaction scheme between March 1 and September 30, 2008, to bolster Anglo’s balance sheet.
