A jury has found a Co Louth man guilty of involvement in a £151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy in 1996 and has acquitted a retired garda of the same charge arising out of what was called "a dramtic accident that never happened".

The jury in the Ir£151,000 alleged insurance fraud conspiracy trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been sent to a hotel overnight after failing to reach a verdict.

A lorry driver accused of conspiracy in the Ir£151,000 alleged insurance trial has told the jury in evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that he had nothing to do with the claims made.

Gardaí discovered a Irl £63,000-valued Scania transporter, which had been stolen in 1994 from a Customs and Excise pound at Rosslare Port, when they searched a north Co Louth premises in 1998.

A Mullingar businessman has told an alleged Ir£151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy trial that invoices purporting to come from him were spurious documents and had not been signed by him.

A consultant engineer has told a jury it would have taken up to seven hours to remove a Scania truck and its load from a ditch into which one allegedly fell after colliding with a Rover car.

A man who gave a false address paid Stg£10,000 cash in Northern Ireland currency to buy a badly damaged Scania truck from an English salvage company.

A professional motor assessor has told the Ir£151,000 fraud conspiracy trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that a Rover car he examined was never involved in a traffic accident.

A former garda accused of involvement in a £151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy in 1996 told detectives he saw a car and a truck lying in a ditch on a new Co Leitrim bypass.

A factory security man has told the jury in the 'fake accident' trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that neither saw nor heard any indication of a major collision at the alleged scene.