Jailed director of Positive Action charity was ‘brilliant’

The woman jailed last year for stealing €116,000 from a charity set up to support women with hepatitis C was considered “brilliant” by some of her peers, and the only one with book-keeping experience.

One executive committee member/director of Positive Action told HSE internal auditors that “If she [Detta Warnock] was in this office and someone asked for something, they would have it as fast as they asked for it. That’s how efficient she was. She’d knock you out with science; she’d have figures all over the desk.”

The audit of the books and records of Positive Action Ltd for 2009-12 recorded 94 serious irregularities totalling €152,146.83. Records indicated that the irregularities related to one executive committee member/director — Ms Warnock.