Credit union director pleads guilty to €52k fraud attempt

A director of a credit union in Co Limerick, who claimed his Mercedes car was taken from him by a group of men when he went Christmas shopping to the North, yesterday pleaded guilty at Limerick Circuit Court to attempting to make a gain of €52,000 by deception from AXA Insurance Ltd.

Pat Laffan, aged 61, of Tullovin, Croom, was remanded on continuing bail to the same court on July 28 for sentence.

He claimed his car was forcibly taken from him by a group of men after he was forced into a layby as he travelled along a motorway near Dundonald, Co Down, in December 2013.