Seven years for Clayton assistant

The former personal assistant of Adam Clayton has been jailed for seven years after she was found guilty of stealing nearly €3m from his bank accounts.

Judge Patrick McCartan that Carol Hawkins’ crime, “ranks at the higher end of the scale” and the nature of the crime is a “serious breach of trust craftily done over time”.

He said it was “a crime rooted in greed and nothing else and, whether she was a fool or a clever person, that does matter”.