Lowry denies paying off businessman
Solicitor Christopher Vaughan told fellow lawyer Kate Macmillan during telephone conversations that he believed property dealer Kevin Phelan had “orchestrated the whole thing”. And he was also said to have informed his legal colleague that he looked upon Mr Phelan as “a total crook”.
Ms Macmillan, whose note about her exchanges with Mr Vaughan was headed “blackmail”, was a member of a firm of lawyers representing media tycoon Mr O’Brien.