‘Bizarre features’ in money-laundering case

TED CUNNINGHAM’S counsel asked yesterday if the prosecution was suggesting that Phil Flynn was a notorious scumbag and that by association, Cunningham was a money-launderer.

Ciarán O’Loughlin posed this strongly worded question at the end of the defence’s closing address to the jury at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, where Ted Cunningham, aged 60, of Woodbine Lodge, Farran, Co Cork, is on trial on 10 charges of money-laundering arising out of the investigation of the robbery of £26.5 million from the Northern Bank in Belfast on December 20, 2004.

Mr O’Loughlin said there were bizarre features to the prosecution case, including the way former chairman of Bank of Scotland (Ireland) Phil Flynn was referred to.