A former Fine Gael councillor convicted of receiving corrupt payments remained a free man yesterday after his sentencing hearing was adjourned until late June.

A former Fine Gael councillor will be sentenced next week after being found guilty yesterday on six charges of receiving a total of €80,000 in corrupt payments from a property developer.

Jenny Forsey was not motivated by revenge, she said, when she blew the whistle on her estranged husband.

A former Fine Gael town councillor has told a corruption trial that the mother of his estranged wife told him she would “stab him to death” if he did not repay €10,000 he had borrowed from her daughter.

A former Fine Gael councillor told gardaí he asked a property developer for a loan of €70,000 at a time when his marriage was breaking up, his business was failing and he was behind with his mortgage.