Shortt family in six-figure settlement over set-up

THE wife and children of Frank Shortt, the Donegal publican falsely jailed for drugs offences after being set up by gardaí, yesterday agreed a massive six-figure compensation settlement with the State.

Well-known businessman Mr Shortt was set up by rogue gardaí and framed for allowing ecstasy to be sold in his popular Inishowen nightclub, the Point Inn, in the mid-1990s.

The 71-year-old languished in jail for more than two years before being freed in 1998. But Mr Shortt had to wait until 2002 for his name to be fully cleared.