O’Brien snr hired Lowry accountant to get information on property

THE 76-year-old father of telecoms billionaire Denis O’Brien enlisted Michael Lowry’s accountant to get information from his own solicitor about an English property, the Moriarty Tribunal heard yesterday.

Accountant Denis O’Connor said businessman Denis O’Brien senior asked him in spring-summer 2002 to contact Christopher Vaughan, a solicitor based in Northampton, who handled the Doncaster Rovers football club transaction.

Explaining why he had been asked to make the contact, Mr O’Connor said Mr O’Brien snr told him Mr Vaughan would not know who he himself was.