Arsonist avoids jail for attempted €200k fraud

A Cork company director who hiked his insurance coverage before setting his own premises on fire and then trying to claim €200,000 insurance received a 10-year suspended jail term yesterday.

Arsonist avoids jail for attempted €200k fraud

One of the terms of the suspensions of a seven-year jail term for arson and a consecutive term of three years for attempted fraud was that David Healy, 47, would pay €33,000 to the State within one month.

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

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