The €52m theft and fraud trial of ex-solicitor Thomas Byrne has been shown files showing he paid stamp duty on multiple properties he allegedly fraudulently took possession of.

An alleged victim of former solicitor Thomas Byrne has described her “horror” at discovering he had transferred her family home into his name.

A former solicitor who is now working as a waiter fraudulently transferred clients’ homes into his own name so he could secure millions of euro in mortgages against them, it has been alleged.