Company director found guilty of arson

The 47-year-old man from Passage West who denied arson causing €200,000 worth of damage to a building where his company had its business was found guilty yesterday.

One of the jurors became ill during the week-long trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court. All 11 of the remaining jurors — three women and eight men — were unanimous in the guilty verdict they returned after approximately two hours of deliberation yesterday.

David Healy, of Tig na Mona, Rathankar, Passage West, Co Cork, denied a charge of arson at Munster Air Compressors — a company of which he was a director — at Kilbarry Cottages, Dublin Hill, Cork, on December 16, 2014.