Redmond found guilty of corruption

Former Dublin City and County assistant manager George Redmond has been found guilty of corruption.

The 79-year-old was remanded in custody for sentence on December 17 next.

A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court returned 10-2 majority guilty verdicts on two charges that he received £10,000 from car salesman Brendan Fassnidge as a bribe relating to the sale of a right-of-way from Dublin County Council at the Lucan bypass.

The jury spent six hours and 42 minutes on its deliberations before it returned its verdicts on day-13 of the trial after spending one night in a hotel.

Judge Michael White thanked the members of the jury for their care and consideration to the case and exempted them from jury service for 10 years.

Redmond had denied that while an agent or servant of the Council of the County of Dublin, a public body, he corruptly received £10,000 from Mr Fassnidge on a date between June 1, 1987 and May 31, 1988 as an inducement or reward for doing or forbearing to do anything in respect of the sale of a right of way at Palmerstown, by the Council of the County of Dublin.

He also denied that as an agent he corruptly accepted £10,000 for himself as an inducement or reward for showing favour to Mr Fassnidge, in relation to the said principal's affairs, namely the sale of the right of way.