Shortt accepts State apology over false conviction

NIGHTCLUB owner Frank Shortt yesterday accepted a belated apology from the State for being framed by corrupt gardaí and wrongly jailed for 27 months.

Shortt accepts State apology over false conviction

The 71-year-old Donegal man was falsely convicted of allowing drug dealers free reign to sell ecstasy to clubbers at the popular Point Inn on the Inishowen Peninsula in 1992.

After years battling for justice, last autumn he was awarded €1.9 million compensation in the High Court and that was followed yesterday with the State finally apologising for his suffering.

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