McGeever trial date for wasting Garda time set

Former property developer Kevin McGeever is to stand trial in February charged with wasting Garda time in relation to a six-month inquiry into his alleged kidnapping last year.

Mr McGeever, aged 70, with a former address in Ballywinna, Craughwell, Co Galway, and more recently in Clontarf, Dublin 3, was due to stand trial at Galway Circuit Criminal Court on November 11 but was admitted to Beaumont Hospital the previous day with high blood pressure.

Mr McGeever is charged with knowingly making false reports and statements to gardaí which tended to show he had information relating to allegations of false imprisonment, assault, and threats to harm. He is further charged with wasting garda time by knowingly making false reports and statements.

Mr McGeever, who was reported missing in May, 2012, was found wandering in an apparently confused and dishevelled state in Co Leitrim in January 2013.