Quinn’s wife ordered to repay €3m bank loan

THE wife of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn has been ordered to repay a €3 million bank loan.

A judge ruled she cannot avoid liability on grounds including that she never knew she had signed up for the loan, or being a homemaker unduly influenced by her husband, who signed documents he gave her without reading them.

Mr Justice Peter Kelly said the law since the 18th century allowed for no presumption of undue influence between a wife and husband. There was no evidence of undue influence, such as bullying behaviour, by Mr Quinn over his wife Patricia, nor was there evidence she was feeble minded or mentally ill.