Man fined €600 after being convicted of false claim clamper’s van hit him

A man who claimed that a clamper’s van struck him after a clamp was put on his wife’s car has been convicted of making a false complaint to gardaí.

Jason Flavin, aged 37, of Killeenreendowney Place, Ballyphehane, Cork, denied the charge against him. After hearing evidence in the contested trial at Cork District Court, Judge John King convicted him of the offence.

Flavin was fined €600 on a charge that, on June 16 last year at Togher Garda Station, he knowingly made a false statement tending to show that an offence had been committed. He falsely claimed that a clamper’s van had struck him on the knee.