Quinn to find out today if he will be jailed

Bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn will learn this morning whether he will be jailed over contempt of court orders restraining the stripping of multi-million assets from his family’s international property group.

His lawyer yesterday made an impassioned plea in the High Court that jail should be the last resort for the man who was once Ireland’s “leading entrepreneur”, an icon and “leading light of the Celtic Tiger”.

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, formerly Anglo Irish Bank, claimed in court Mr Quinn failed to purge his contempt and said it believes Quinn family members continue to direct steps to prevent it recovering assets for the taxpayer.