Solicitor: I never‘handled the numbers’

Solicitor and financial adviser Gary O’Flynn, who is on trial on deception charges, said through his barrister yesterday that he only handled the legal side of operations, while the accountant "handled the numbers".

Gary O’Flynn, aged 38, with an address at Hayfield Drive, Castle Court, Whitechurch, Co Cork, pleaded not guilty to 21 sample charges against a background where one man was at a loss of €6,375 and a woman was at a loss of €2,002, it was alleged by the prosecution.

Mr O’Flynn and accountant Pat Sweeney were both involved for a time with a company called Debt Assist. Mr Sweeney was called as a prosecution witness yesterday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.