Judge orders photos of Gilligan’s wife’s equestrian centre

A JUDGE yesterday ordered that photographs of the former equestrian centre owned by the wife of convicted drug dealer, John Gilligan, should be taken today or on Monday to ascertain its condition in advance of a High Court hearing next week into whether a receiver should be appointed to take the property over.

The Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), which in 1996 obtained an order freezing Gilligan’s assets, is seeking to have a receiver appointed for Jessbrook Equestrian Centre in Enfield, Co Meath, which they say is in an overgrown and abandoned state.

The court heard it is owned by Geraldine Gilligan and CAB want to appoint a receiver to take it over along with other properties owned by Gilligan’s son Darren and his daughter Tracey.