Former FG councillor guilty of corruption

A former Fine Gael councillor will be sentenced next week after being found guilty yesterday on six charges of receiving a total of €80,000 in corrupt payments from a property developer.

Fred Forsey Jnr, aged 43, sobbed at Waterford Circuit Court after a jury delivered six unanimous verdicts following a trial which lasted eight days.

Members of his family in the public gallery gasped as the verdicts were read out. Forsey initially betrayed no emotion, briefly looking at the ground and then at the jury from across the courtroom, before breaking down emotionally as the judge ordered him to return for sentencing next Thursday.