Seán FitzPatrick ‘too widely reported to get fair trial’

Seán FitzPatrick has launched a High Court action aimed at permanently preventing his trial before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court from going ahead.

Mr FitzPatrick is facing a number of charges including making a misleading, false, or deceptive statement to auditors and of furnishing false information from 2002 to 2007.

The trial has been scheduled to begin on October 5. However, the former Anglo Irish Bank chairman claims he cannot get a fair trial due to the large volume of adverse publicity published and broadcast about him.