High Court orders CAB to seize five Gilligan properties

THE High Court yesterday gave the go-ahead to the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) to take over the management and maintenance of five properties owned by convicted drug dealer John Gilligan and his family.

Mr Justice Kevin Feeney appointed a receiver to the properties, but he also ordered that Gilligan’s ex-wife Geraldine and their son Darren could continue to live on in two of them, without charge and as caretakers, pending the final outcome of further court proceedings dealing with ownership.

The judgment came following a five-day hearing into an application by the CAB to have its legal officer appointed as receiver to Jessbrook Equestrian Centre in Enfield, Co Meath, a house attached to the centre, two houses in Lucan and the original Gilligan family home in Corduff Avenue, Blanchardstown.