David Drumm’s wife said she was "imagining life without" the former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive when cash transfers began moving to her new bank accounts just as the financial meltdown of September 2008 was taking hold.

The "large amount of omissions" from financial statements made by David Drumm was far above the norm, according to the experienced bankruptcy trustee liquidating his estate.

David Drumm was accused of engaging in "classic fraudulent transfers" during the first day of his bank-ruptcy trial in Boston yesterday.

The trial of David Drumm, the former chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank, will begin today with the disgraced banker first up to give testimony at a Boston bankruptcy court.