Family pleads guilty to money laundering

A mother and her four adult children all pleaded guilty yesterday to various counts of money-laundering and, in one case, a €4,000 Post Office book and €2,000 in cash were found in a Kellogg’s Corn Flakes box.

The case against five members of the Heaphy family was scheduled to go to trial by judge and jury yesterday and it had been estimated that it would have taken three to four weeks at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

However, Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin told the jury panellists that they were not required after the five accused pleaded guilty to various charges related to the concealment of the source of money being the proceeds of crime.