Manager took €450k from bank customers

A bank manager has been jailed for four years after he stole nearly €450,000 from customers to pay off a €3m debt he had run up from failed property investments.

Kevin Jarlath Mitchell, aged 54, had been working as a branch manager in ACC Bank in Kilrush when the 19-year fraud was uncovered.

He came before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on signed pleas of guilty from the district court and confirmed seven such pleas before Judge Martin Nolan. They were accepted as sample pleas.