Ex-garda recalls accident to fraud trial

A former garda accused of involvement in a £151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy in 1996 told detectives he saw a car and a truck lying in a ditch on a new Co Leitrim bypass.

Mr Desmond McGonigle, who was attached to Carrick-on-Shannon garda station at the time, had marked himself down for a 4pm-midnight shift as a patrol car driver on the night of what the prosecution alleges was a fake accident at Annaduff, Carrick-on-Shannon.